trecho

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trecho, from tractus. Doublet of tracto, which was a borrowing.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ʃu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ʃu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ʃo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɐ(j).ʃu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɐ(j).ʃu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.t͡ʃu/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ʃu/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ʃu/

• Hyphenation: tre‧cho

Noun

trecho m (plural trechos)

1. excerpt; passage; snippet (small extract from a larger work)

   Synonyms: passagem, excerto

   Ele citou um trecho da Bíblia.

   He quoted a passage from the Bible.

2. stretch (a section of a road, route, trip or period)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾet͡ʃo/ [ˈt̪ɾe.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -etʃo
• Syllabification: tre‧cho

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tractus. Doublet of tracto, which was a borrowing.

Noun

trecho m (plural trechos)

1. distance, stretch, extension (in space or time)

   Synonym: tramo

2. way, trail, walk

   Synonyms: vía, paseo

Derived terms

• a trechos
• de trecho en trecho
• del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho
• trechear

 

Related terms

• pertrecho
• tracto
• traer
• tratar
• trato
• trazar
• trechar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

trecho

1. first-person singular present indicative of trechar

Further reading

• “trecho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014