guilhotina

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡi.ʎoˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡi.ʎoˈt͡ʃi.na/

  • Hyphenation: gui‧lho‧ti‧na

Etymology 1

From French guillotine.[1][2]

Noun

guilhotina f (plural guilhotinas)

  1. (historical) guillotine (machine used for capital punishment)
  2. 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

  1. inflection of guilhotinar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ guilhotina”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024
  2. ^ guilhotina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082024