sempre-em-pé
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom sempre (“always”) + em pé (“standing”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: sem‧pre‧-em‧-pé
Noun
editsempre-em-pé m (invariable)
- (Portugal) roly-poly (toy that rights itself when pushed over)
- Synonyms: (Brazil) joão-bobo, (Brazil) joão-teimoso
Further reading
edit- “sempre-em-pé”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “sempre-em-pé”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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