correia

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese correa, from Latin corrigia.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈʁej.ɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koˈʁej.ɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈʁej.a/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁɐj.ɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁej.ɐ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁej.ɐ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈʁe.ɐ/

Noun

correia f (plural correias)

a thin leather strip used to tie or bind
chain drive (transmission system)

Descendants

→ Hunsrik: Korrea

Further reading

“correia” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

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