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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin terribilis. By surface analysis, terror + -ível.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -ivɛl
- Hyphenation: ter‧rí‧vel
Adjective
terrível m or f (plural terríveis, comparable, comparative mais terrível, superlative o mais terrível or terribilíssimo)
- terrible
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:amedrontador
Derived terms