arpéu
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Old French harpeau. By surface analysis, arpão + -éu.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: ar‧péu
Noun
editarpéu m (plural arpéus)
- (nautical) grappling, grapple (tool with claws or hooks)
- (nautical) grapnel (small anchor)
- Synonyms: fateixa, atiradeira
- (fishing) treble hook
- Synonym: garateia
- (figurative) something that catches, holds or harms like a grapple
- (in the plural, colloquial) nails
- (Brazil, fantasy) graphorn (magical creature from the Harry Potter series)
Further reading
edit- “arpéu”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “arpéu”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “arpéu”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “arpéu”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old French
- Portuguese terms derived from Old French
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -éu
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Nautical
- pt:Fishing
- Portuguese colloquialisms
- Brazilian Portuguese
- pt:Fantasy
- pt:Harry Potter