hortelão

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin hortulanus (“gardener”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /oʁ.teˈlɐ̃w̃/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /oɾ.teˈlɐ̃w̃/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /oʁ.teˈlɐ̃w̃/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /oɻ.teˈlɐ̃w̃/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔɾ.tɨˈlɐ̃w̃/

Hyphenation: hor‧te‧lão

Noun

hortelão m (plural hortelãos, feminine hortelã, feminine plural hortelãs)

someone who tends a kitchen garden
Synonym: horteleiro

Related terms

Descendants

Macanese: hortelám (“mint”)

References

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

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