tropeiro

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Portuguese

Etymology

From tropa (“pack animals”) +‎ -eiro.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾoˈpe(j).ɾu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾoˈpe(j).ɾo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾuˈpɐj.ɾu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾuˈpej.ɾu/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾuˈpej.ɾu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾuˈpe.ɾu/

Hyphenation: fei‧jão‧-tro‧pei‧ro

Noun

tropeiro m (plural tropeiros, feminine tropeira, feminine plural tropeiras)

(Brazil) muleteer
Synonyms: almocreve, recoveiro

Derived terms

Further reading

“tropeiro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
“tropeiro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

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