linha

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English

Etymology

From Portuguese linha (“line”), from Old Galician-Portuguese linha, from Latin līnea (“thread, line”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).

Noun

linha (plural linhas)

  1. (historical, measure) A traditional short Portuguese unit of length, usually about equal to 2.3 mm.

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Noun

linha f (plural linhas)

  1. line

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese linha, from Latin līnea (“line, thread”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish liña, and Catalan llinya.

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  • Hyphenation: li‧nha

Noun

linha f (plural linhas)

  1. line, a string, a thread
    • 1887, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, A Reliquia‎, Porto: Typographia de A. J. da Silva Teixeira:
      [...] atirava então o novello de linha para cima da mesa, espetando-lhe raivosamente as agulhas de meia
      — thus he had thrown the thread hank on the table, piercing it angrily with sock needles.
  2. (mathematics) line, a straight path through two or more points
  3. line, a thin wrinkle or crease in skin, fabric, &c.
    • 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎, Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:
      —Pessimamente! gritou Ega. Com expressões de compaixão; sem linha nenhuma; estendido por cima do piano; agarrando com a mão no sapato...
      —Awefully! Ega cried. - With expressions of compassion; without a line; extended over the piano; gripping with the hand in the shoe.
  4. line, a straight marking of longitude or latitude
  5. line, a queue or sequence of people or objects
    • 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎, Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:
      Por cima, no parapeito de velludo da galeria, corria outra linha de senhoras com vestidos claros, abanando-se mollemente;
      Above, in the gallery’s velvet parapet, ran another line of ladies with light dresses, fanning themselves lightly.
  6. (typography, design) line, a row of text
    • 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎, Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:
      Uma linha bastaria:—«Meu querido Carlos, não te zangues, desculpa, foi brincadeira.»
      One line would be enough:—“My dear Carl, don’t be angry, sorry, it was a joke.”
  7. product line, a series of related products
  8. telephone line, a physical telephone connection or a single telephony account
  9. fishing line, a line used to catch or hang fish
  10. railroad track, whether straight or not
    • 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎, Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:
      Como queria ella, n'uma linha de caminho de ferro em que se encontra constantemente gente conhecida, apear-se com elle na estação de Santarem, [...]
      As she wanted, in a railroad track in which one constantly finds people one knows, to exit the train with him at the Santarém station,
  11. line, a railroad or other mass transportation route
  12. (historical, measure) linha, Portuguese line, a former small unit of length about equal to 2.3 mm

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