contraforte

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.tɾaˈfɔʁ.t͡ʃi/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kõ.tɾaˈfɔɾ.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kõ.tɾaˈfɔʁ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.tɾaˈfɔɻ.te/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõ.tɾɐˈfɔɾ.tɨ/

Hyphenation: con‧tra‧for‧te

Noun

contraforte m (plural contrafortes)

(architecture) buttress (brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it)
Synonym: botaréu
buttress (feature jutting out from mountain)
buttress (anything that serves to support something else)

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