gatuno

Portuguese edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Spanish gatuno (“catlike”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation edit

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈtũ.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈtu.no/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɐˈtu.nu/

Hyphenation: ga‧tu‧no

Adjective edit

gatuno (feminine gatuna, masculine plural gatunos, feminine plural gatunas)

light-fingered

Noun edit

gatuno m (plural gatunos)

thief, pilferer
Synonym: ladrão

References edit

^ “gatuno” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
^ “gatuno” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

gatuno

first-person singular present indicative of gatunar

Spanish edit

Adjective edit

gatuno (feminine gatuna, masculine plural gatunos, feminine plural gatunas)

catlike
(relational) cat

Descendants edit

→ Portuguese: gatuno

Further reading edit

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

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