carpideira
Portuguese, noun/kaʁ.piˈde(j).ɾɐ/
carpideira is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a professional mourner, a moirologist (a woman paid to grieve at a funeral)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “profissional cuja função consiste em chorar para um defunto alheio”.
What does carpideira mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea professional mourner, a moirologist (a woman paid to grieve at a funeral)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. profissional cuja função consiste em chorar para um defunto alheio
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 carpideira
- carpideiras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carpideira?
- Brazil /kaʁ.piˈde(j).ɾɐ/
- Brazil [kah.piˈde(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
- /kaɾ.piˈde(j).ɾɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to carpideira
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is carpideira in Portuguese?
carpideira appears about once in every 29 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).