freio
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: frei‧o
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese frẽo, from Latin frēnum (“harness; bit; curb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold”). Cognate with Spanish freno and French frein.
Noun edit
freio m (plural freios)
- brake (device used to slow or stop a vehicle)
- Synonyms: (Portugal) travão, (Brazil) breque
- Antonym: acelerador
- (anatomy) frenulum
- Synonym: frênulo
- bit (piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to reins to direct the animal)
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