lacra

• Hyphenation: la‧cra
• Rhymes: -akɾɐ

lacra

1. inflection of lacrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈlakɾa/ [ˈla.kɾa]
• Rhymes: -akɾa
• Syllabification: la‧cra

Probably from lacre (“sealing wax, resin”), referring to the scars left over after being lashed.^[1]

lacra f (plural lacras)

1. (medicine) scar, trace
2. (figurative) fault, bane; blot
   • 2018 December 8, Ignacio Garriga, quotee, “Ignacio, "harto" de ser el negro catalán de Vox: "Soy español. Eso es racismo"”, in El Español‎^[1], retrieved 2021-02-01:

     El Procés es la gran lacra que ha fagocitado todos los problemas de los catalanes.

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lacra

1. inflection of lacrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “lacra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28