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Etymology 1
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Deverbal from encostar.
Pronunciation
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- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈkos.tu/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈkos.tu/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈkos.tu/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈkos.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈkoʃ.tu/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈkoʃ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈkos.to/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈkos.to/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ostu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -oʃtu
- Hyphenation: en‧cos‧to
encosto m (plural encostos)
- support, prop
1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho:[…] teriam de proceder como tinha visto na rua, despegar-se um deles da segurança do encosto, […]- […] they would have to proceed like she had seen in the street, one of them letting go of the certainty of the support, […]
- push
- (religion, spirituality) a spiritual curse or jinx, or general bad luck
Etymology 2
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
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- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈkɔs.tu/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈkɔs.tu/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈkɔs.tu/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈkɔs.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈkɔʃ.tu/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈkɔʃ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈkɔs.to/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈkɔs.to/
encosto
- first-person singular present indicative of encostar