gôndola
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian gondola, from Venetian góndoła, from Byzantine Greek κοντούρα (kontoúra, literally “little tail”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: gôn‧do‧la
Noun edit
gôndola f (plural gôndolas)
- gondola (long, narrow boat used in Venice)
- gondola (a free-standing shelving unit in a supermarket or other retail store)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Hunsrik: Gondola
Further reading edit
- “gôndola” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913