cafelo

Macanese

Etymology

From dialectal Portuguese cafelo (“first plaster or mortar on a wall”).

Noun

cafelo

1. plastering or patching of walls

Usage notes

• The Macanese term refers to any plastering or patching of walls, not necessarily the first plaster.

Derived terms

• cafelâ

References

• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 338

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈfe.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈfe.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈfe.lo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈfe.lu/

• Hyphenation: ca‧fe‧lo

Noun

cafelo m (plural cafelos)

1. the first layer of mortar on a wall

Descendants

• Macanese: cafelo
• Macanese: cafelâ, cafulâ