lavatório

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Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin lavatōrium.[1] By surface analysis, lavar +‎ -tório Doublet of lavadouro, an alteration of the inherited lavadoiro.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /la.vaˈtɔ.ɾi.u/ , (faster pronunciation) /la.vaˈtɔ.ɾju/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /la.vaˈtɔ.ɾi.o/ , (faster pronunciation) /la.vaˈtɔ.ɾjo/
 

  • Rhymes: -ɔɾiu, (faster pronunciation) -ɔɾju
  • Hyphenation: la‧va‧tó‧ri‧o

Noun

lavatório m (plural lavatórios)

  1. washbasin

References

  1. ^ lavatório”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024