cavaquinho

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Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cavaquinho, from the diminutive of cavaco (“fragment of wood”).

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Noun

cavaquinho (plural cavaquinhos)

  1. A small guitar-string instrument of Portuguese origin, with four wire or gut strings, played with a plectrum.
    • 2022 February 7, Jonathan Blitzer, “How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit”, in The New Yorker‎, →ISSN:
      One person came back with a guitar, another with a Brazilian-style ukulele called a cavaquinho, and a third with a tambourine and a tantam drum with a long, thick neck.

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Portuguese

cavaquinhos

Etymology

From cavaco (“fragment of wood”) +‎ -inho.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: ca‧va‧qui‧nho

Noun

cavaquinho m (plural cavaquinhos)

  1. diminutive of cavaco
  2. (music) cavaquinho (small string instrument of the European guitar family)
    Synonyms: (Azores, Madeira) braguinha, cavaco
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