arcobotante

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French arc-boutant.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌaʁ.ku.boˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌaɾ.ku.boˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌaʁ.ku.boˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌaɻ.ko.boˈtɐ̃.te/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌaɾ.ku.buˈtɐ̃.tɨ/

Hyphenation: ar‧co‧bo‧tan‧te

Noun

arcobotante m (plural arcobotantes)

(architecture) flying buttress (buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports)

References

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

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