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cão de água

Portuguese, noun

cão de água is spelled C-Ã-O-D-E-Á-G-U-A (9 letters). Cão de água is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “water dog” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, cão-de-água is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of cão de água; still used…”.

What does cão de água mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinewater dog

noun

as cão-de-água
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of cão de água; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. moço que persegue e pretende namorar uma rapariga

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of cão de água

  • cães de água plural
  • cão d'água alternative
  • cães-de-água plural
  • cão-d'água alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

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