noun, masculine/eskaɾaˈbaxo/plural: escarabajos
beetle; Volkswagen Beetle
“El escarabajo no tira casi nada. La verdad es que no entiendo cómo ha podido pasar la Iteuve.”
Synonyms: Vocho
Inherited from Old Spanish escaravayo (with the ending replaced by the pejorative -ajo), from Vulgar Latin *scarafaius (cf. Italian scarafaggio, Old Galician-Portuguese escaraveo), from Latin scarabaeus (“scarab, beetle”), from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “crab, beetle”). Cognate with English scarab.