chapeleta
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -etɐ
- Hyphenation: cha‧pe‧le‧ta
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French chapelet (“small hat”). By surface analysis, chapéu + -eta.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
chapeleta f (plural chapeletas)
- Diminutive of chapéu (“small hat”)
- Synonym: chapeuzinho
- ricochet
- (plumbing) flapper valve
- (plumbing) bonnet (metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers)
- (climbing) hanger (device secured by a bolt and used to attach a carabiner)
- (mycology) mushroom cap
- (Portugal, colloquial) a blow on the head
- (Brazil, vulgar, colloquial) glans penis
Etymology 2 edit
Uncertain. Maybe from chapa.
Noun edit
chapeleta f (plural chapeletas)
Further reading edit
- “chapeleta” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “chapeleta” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “chapeleta” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “chapeleta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.