incubadora

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ku.baˈdo.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ku.baˈdo.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ku.baˈdo.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ku.bɐˈdo.ɾɐ/ [ĩ.ku.βɐˈðo.ɾɐ]

• Hyphenation: in‧cu‧ba‧do‧ra

Noun

incubadora f (plural incubadoras)

1. incubator (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs)
2. (medicine) incubator (apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby)
3. (business) incubator (support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies)

Spanish

Etymology

From incubar +‎ -dora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inkubaˈdoɾa/ [ĩŋ.ku.β̞aˈð̞o.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: in‧cu‧ba‧do‧ra

Noun

incubadora f (plural incubadoras)

1. incubator

Related terms

• incubación
• incubar

 

Adjective

incubadora f

1. feminine singular of incubador

Further reading

• “incubador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014