forasteiro

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan foraster (“foreigner”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /fo.ɾasˈte(j).ɾu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /fo.ɾaʃˈte(j).ɾu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fo.ɾasˈte(j).ɾo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /fu.ɾɐʃˈtɐj.ɾu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fu.ɾɐʃˈtej.ɾu/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /fu.ɾɐʃˈtej.ɾu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fu.ɾɐʃˈte.ɾu/

Hyphenation: fo‧ras‧tei‧ro

Adjective

forasteiro (feminine forasteira, masculine plural forasteiros, feminine plural forasteiras, not comparable)

foreign
Synonym: estrangeiro

Noun

forasteiro m (plural forasteiros, feminine forasteira, feminine plural forasteiras)

foreigner
Synonym: estrangeiro
stranger

Related terms

References

^ “forasteiro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
^ “forasteiro”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024

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