carapaça

Portuguese

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carapaça

carapaça

Etymology

Borrowed from French carapace, from Spanish carapacho.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ɾaˈpa.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ɾaˈpa.sa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ɾɐˈpa.sɐ/

Rhymes: -asɐ
Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧pa‧ça

Noun

carapaça f (plural carapaças)

carapace, shell

References

^ “carapaça” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

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