tramoya

Spanish

Etymology

From trama (“weave, plot”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /tɾaˈmoʝa/ [t̪ɾaˈmo.ʝa]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /tɾaˈmoʃa/ [t̪ɾaˈmo.ʃa]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /tɾaˈmoʒa/ [t̪ɾaˈmo.ʒa]

Rhymes: -oʝa
Syllabification: tra‧mo‧ya

Noun

tramoya f (plural tramoyas)

(theater) the stage machinery, or a piece thereof
(figurative) racket, scam, scheme

Descendants

→ Catalan: tramoia

Further reading

“tramoya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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