alicate
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic لَقَّاط (laqqāṭ), via Andalusian Arabic.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: a‧li‧ca‧te
Noun edit
alicate m (plural alicates)
- pliers (gripping tool)
Derived terms edit
- alicatezão (augmentative), alicatão (Brazil, augmentative)
- alicatezinho (diminutive), alicatinho (Brazil, diminutive)
- alicatear
References edit
- ^ “alicate” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “alicate” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /aliˈkate/ [a.liˈka.t̪e]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -ate
- Syllabification: a‧li‧ca‧te
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Arabic لَقَّاط (laqqāṭ), via Andalusian Arabic.
Noun edit
alicate m (plural alicates)
- pliers
- combination pliers (UK, US), lineman's pliers (US), Kleins (US), linesman pliers (Canada), side-cutting pliers
- Synonym: alicates universales
- (Argentina) nail clippers
Usage notes edit
- Often used in the plural form with the same meaning.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Cebuano: alikate
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
alicate
- inflection of alicatar:
Further reading edit
- “alicate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014