picaresque

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /pɪkəˈɹɛsk/
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From picaro (“adventurer, rogue”) + -esque (suffix meaning ‘in the style or manner of’ forming adjectives), modelled after Spanish picaresco (“in the style or manner of a picaro; picaresque”), from pícaro (“rogue”) + -esco (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relation). Compare French picaresque (attested later than the English word), Italian picaresco, Portuguese picaresco.

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: picaresc — of or pertaining to rogues
• Catalan: picaresca — of or pertaining to rogues
• French: picaresque — of or pertaining to rogues
• Georgian: ავანტიურული (avanṭiuruli) — of or pertaining to rogues
• German: pikaresk — of or pertaining to rogues
• German: pikarisch — of or pertaining to rogues
• German: spitzbübisch — of or pertaining to rogues
• Italian: picaresco — of or pertaining to rogues
• Italian: picaresca — of or pertaining to rogues
• Polish: awanturniczy — of or pertaining to rogues
• Polish: łotrzykowski — of or pertaining to rogues
• Portuguese: picaresco — of or pertaining to rogues
• Portuguese: picaresca — of or pertaining to rogues
• Russian: плутовско́й (plutovskój) — of or pertaining to rogues
• Spanish: picaresco — of or pertaining to rogues
• Bulgarian: приключенски (priključenski) — characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero
• Catalan: picaresc — characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero
• Serbo-Croatian: pikareskni — characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero
• Arabic: رواية شطارية — picaresque novel
• Armenian: խաբեբայապատում (xabebayapatum) — picaresque novel
• Basque: eleberri pikaresko — picaresque novel
• Bulgarian: пикаресковият роман — picaresque novel
• Catalan: novel·la picaresca — picaresque novel
• Chinese Mandarin: 流浪漢小說 /流浪汉小说 (liúlànghànxiǎoshuō) — picaresque novel
• Dutch: schelmenroman — picaresque novel
• Esperanto: pikareska romano — picaresque novel
• Finnish: pikareskiromaani — picaresque novel
• Finnish: veijariromaani — picaresque novel
• French: picaresque — picaresque novel
• West-Frisian: skelmeroman — picaresque novel
• Georgian: პიკარესკული რომანი (ṗiḳaresḳuli romani) — picaresque novel
• German: Schelmenroman — picaresque novel
• Greek: πικαρέσκο (pikarésko) — picaresque novel
• Hebrew: רומן פיקרסקי — picaresque novel
• Hungarian: pikareszk regény — picaresque novel
• Icelandic: píkareska skáldsagan — picaresque novel
• Italian: romanzo picaresco — picaresque novel
• Japanese: 悪漢小説 (akkanshōsetsu) — picaresque novel
• Korean: 피카레스크 소설 (pikareseukeu soseol) — picaresque novel
• Norwegian: pikaresk roman — picaresque novel
• Persian: رندنامه — picaresque novel
• Polish: powieść łotrzykowska — picaresque novel
• Portuguese: romance picaresco — picaresque novel
• Romanian: roman picaresc — picaresque novel
• Russian: плутовско́й (plutovskój) — picaresque novel
• Russian: пикаре́скный рома́н (pikarésknyj román) — picaresque novel
• Serbo-Croatian: pikarski roman — picaresque novel
• Serbo-Croatian: pikareska — picaresque novel
• Slovak: pikareskný román — picaresque novel
• Slovene: pikareskni roman — picaresque novel
• Spanish: novela picaresca — picaresque novel
• Swedish: pikaresk — picaresque novel
• Turkish: pikaresk roman — picaresque novel
• Ukrainian: крутійський роман — picaresque novel