traíra

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See also: traira, trairá, and trairà

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -iɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: tra‧í‧ra

Etymology 1

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traíra (Hoplias malabaricus)
    Etymology tree
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tareʔir
    Proto-Tupian *-ap
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?
    Old Tupi -a
    Old Tupi tare'irabor.
    Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
    Proto-Italic *trānts
    Latin trāns
    Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-
    Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti
    Proto-Italic *didō
    Latin dō
    Latin trādō
    Old Galician-Portuguese traer
    Portuguese trairinflu.?
    Portuguese traíra

    Borrowed from Old Tupi tare'ira.[1] Spelling and traitor sense were influenced by trair, whence also the pre-reform spelling trahira.

    Noun

    traíra f (plural traíras)

    1. (Brazil) trahira (Hoplias malabaricus)
      • 1937 February 27, “Rio Grande do Sul: A commissão de tabellamento — A fundação de um gymnasio — Fallecimentos — Viajantes”, in Jornal do Commercio, volume 110, number 126, Rio de Janeiro, page 3:
        Foi pescada na lagoa Heitor Mercio, em Bagé, uma trahira com 80 centimetros de comprimento.
        A trahira with 80 centimeters of length was caught at lake Heitor Mercio.
    Descendants
    • → English: trahira
    • → Hunsrik: Traira

    Noun

    traíra m or f by sense (plural traíras)

    1. (Brazil, colloquial, derogatory) betrayer; traitor
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:traidor

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    traíra

    1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of trair

    References

    1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tare'ira”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 465, column 2
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