traíra

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See also: traira, trairá, and trairà

Portuguese

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 betrayer sense were possibly influenced by trair.

    Noun

    traíra f (plural traíras)

    1. (Brazil) trahira (Hoplias malabaricus)
    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 (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 465, column 2
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