lacre

• Rhymes: (Portuguese) -akɾi, (Portugal) -akɾɨ
• Hyphenation: la‧cre

Variant of laca.

lacre m (plural lacres)

1. seal (wax or resin used to seal letters)

   Synonym: selo

2. seal (object which will be visibly damaged when covering or container is opened)
3. (Brazil, neologism, politics, derogatory) synonym of lacração

• → Malay: lakri
• → Spanish: lacre
  • → Tagalog: lakre

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lacre

1. inflection of lacrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “lacre”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “lacre”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈlakɾe/ [ˈla.kɾe]
• Rhymes: -akɾe
• Syllabification: la‧cre

Borrowed from Portuguese lacre.

lacre m (plural lacres)

1. sealing wax
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 303:

     En casos de hemorragia uterina se usa mucho en Chile el lacre pulverizado, que se toma con un poco de agua. El lacre se expende para tal objeto, es el mismo que sirve para sellar cartas.

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• → Tagalog: lakre

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lacre

1. inflection of lacrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “lacre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024