retrete
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish retrete.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: re‧tre‧te
Noun edit
retrete f (plural retretes)
- (Portugal) toilet (device for depositing human waste and flushing it away)
- Synonyms: (Portugal) sanita, (Brazil) vaso sanitário, (Brazil) privada, (Brazil) sentina, (Brazil) vaso
- (Portugal) toilet, bathroom (room used for urination and defecation)
- Synonyms: (Portugal) casa de banho, (Portugal) quarto de banho, sanitário, (Brazil) privada
References edit
- ^ “retrete” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “retrete” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Provençal [Term?] or Catalan retret.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
retrete m (plural retretes)
Descendants edit
- → Portuguese: retrete
Further reading edit
- “retrete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014