alcateia

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See also: alcatéia

Portuguese

Etymology 1

FWOTD – 4 March 2013

Borrowed from Arabic الْقَطِيعَ (al-qaṭīʕa, “herd”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: al‧ca‧tei‧a

Noun

alcateia f (plural alcateias)

  1. (collective) wolfpack (collective noun for wolves)
    Meronym: lobo
    • 1920, Teixeira de Pascoaes, Elegia da solidão‎:
      Lá fóra, ouve-se uivar phantastica alcateia
      Outside, a fantastic wolfpack is heard howling
  2. (by extension, collective) a pack of any fierce beast or being
    • 1997 March, Arthur Veríssimo, “A dança da bacurinha (ou Sodoma e Gomorra)”, in Trip‎, volume 10, number 54, Trip Editora e Propaganda SA, page 24:
      Deitado na cama, uma alcatéia de zumbis e sacerdotisas pululavam diante da minha mente.
      Lying in bed, a pack of zombies and priestesses jumped in front of my mind.
    • 2006, Jorge Duro, J. R. Bonavita, Desperte o empreendedor em você, page 11:
      Três leões eram irmãos, filhos do mesmo pai, e pertenciam a uma alcateia alegre de mais de vinte leões e leoas.
      Three lions were brothers, sons of the same father, and belonged to a happy pride of over twenty lions and lionesses.
  3. (figurative, collective) gang (a group of criminals or wrongdoers working together)
    Synonyms: bando, gangue, quadrilha
    Meronyms: bandido, criminoso, malfeitor
    • 2004, Aziz Lasmar, José Seligman, Gostei mais do primeiro, Editora AGE, page 168:
      Além disso, o cidadão honesto e trabalhador que paga seus impostos e sua a camiseta trazendo para casa o pão nosso de cada dia, ainda está sujeito a trombar com uma alcatéia de bandidos, de ladrões, de salteadores que estão livres e soltos pelas ruas da cidade, ameaçando-nos em cada semáforo ou esquina da vida.
      In addition, the honest and hard-working citizen who pays his taxes and sweats his shirt bringing home our daily bread, is still subject to running into a pack of crooks, of thieves, of robbers who are free and unjailed across the streets of the city, threatening us on every traffic light or corner of life.
  4. (Brazil, military, collective) a fleet of military submarines
    Synonym: matilha
    Meronym: submarino
    • 2012, Domingos Amaral, Enquanto Salazar dormia..., Casa das Letras, page 122:
      Entre 16 e 23 de Dezembro de 1941, uma alcateia de 10 U-Boats atacara o comboio HG-76, […]
      Between December 16 and 23 of 1941, a fleet of 10 U-Boats had attacked convoy HG-76,
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: al‧ca‧tei‧a

Verb

alcateia

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

References

  1. ^ “alcateia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
  2. ^ “alcateia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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