cutelo
Portuguese
editPronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛlu
- Hyphenation: cu‧te‧lo
Etymology 1
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese cuitelo, coitelo (“knife”), from Latin cultellus (“small knife”).
Alternative forms
editNoun
editcutelo m (plural cutelos)
- cleaver (heavy square knife used by butchers)
- brick knife
- each of the prismatic pieces on whose edges the oscillatory movements of the scales are carried out (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- (in the plural) feathers on the tip of the falcon's wings
- (nautical, in the plural) auxiliary sails that are set in the extension of the round sails (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Kabuverdianu kutelo.
Noun
editcutelo m (plural cutelos)
Categories:
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛlu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛlu/3 syllables
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Nautical
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Kabuverdianu
- Portuguese terms derived from Kabuverdianu
- pt:Tools