dibujo

/diˈbuxo/ · B1 · noun · m

drawing

✏️🛞 dibujo comes from Old French deboissier, to carve in wood (bois)

The verb dibujar first meant carving patterns into wood, and later came to mean drawing lines on paper. The carved-pattern meaning survives in the tire sense: the grooves cut into the rubber are its dibujo, the tread.

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