porco-da-terra
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Literally, “pig of the earth”. Calque of Afrikaans aardvark (“aardvark”, literally “earth pig”), from aarde (“earth”) + vark (“pig”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: por‧co‧da‧ter‧ra
Noun edit
porco-da-terra m (plural porcos-da-terra, feminine porca-da-terra, feminine plural porcas-da-terra)
- aardvark (mammal)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:orictéropo