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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: gui‧lho‧ti‧na
Etymology 1
From French guillotine.[1][2]
Noun
guilhotina f (plural guilhotinas)
- (historical) guillotine (machine used for capital punishment)
- guillotine (device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
guilhotina
- inflection of guilhotinar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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