cotovelo

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Portuguese[edit]

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O cotovelo de um homem - A man's elbow

Etymology 1[edit]

Ultimately from Latin cubitum (“elbow”) through Old Galician-Portuguese *covetelo, either from Latin cubitālis (via Mozarabic qubtal)[1] or alternatively from Latin cubitellum.[2] Cognate with Galician cotobelo. Cf. also the related coto and côvado.

Pronunciation[edit]

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.toˈve.lu/, /ku.tuˈve.lu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.toˈve.lo/, /ku.tuˈve.lo/
 

  • Rhymes: -elu
  • Hyphenation: co‧to‧ve‧lo

Noun[edit]

cotovelo m (plural cotovelos)

  1. (anatomy) elbow
Descendants[edit]
  • Spanish: cotobelo

References[edit]

  1. ^ “cotovelo” in iDicionário Aulete.
  2. ^ “cotovelo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

cotovelo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cotovelar
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