sotavento
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Catalan sotavent.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: so‧ta‧ven‧to
Noun edit
sotavento m (plural sotaventos)
- the direction towards which the wind is blowing, leeward side
- Antonym: barlavento
References edit
- ^ “sotavento” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Catalan sotavent, from sota (“under”) + vent (“wind”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sotavento m (plural sotaventos)
- leeward side
- Antonym: barlovento
Further reading edit
- “sotavento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014