mordaça
Portuguese
editEtymology
editInherited from Vulgar Latin *mordacia, from Latin mordāx, mordācia (“biting”).[1] Compare Spanish mordaza and Italian mordacchia.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -asɐ
- Hyphenation: mor‧da‧ça
Noun
editmordaça f (plural mordaças)
- gag (object placed in someone’s mouth to prevent them from speaking and biting)
Derived terms
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editReferences
edit- ^ “mordaça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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