em casa de ferreiro, espeto de pau
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Language
Portuguese
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em casa de ferreiro, espeto de pau is aPortuguesephrase. It means: diz-se daquele que, tendo o conhecimento de algo, incoerentemente não o aplica a si mesmo (como um ferreiro que, fabricando peças de metal para os outros, tem contudo algo para uso ao fogo feito em... Pronounced /ẽj̃ ˈka.zɐ d͡ʒi feˈʁe(j).ɾu | isˈpe.tu d͡ʒi ˈpaw/, [ẽj̃ ˈka.zɐ d͡ʒi feˈhe(ɪ̯).ɾu | isˈpe.tu d͡ʒi ˈpaʊ̯].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | em casa de ferreiro, espeto de pau |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ẽj̃ ˈka.zɐ d͡ʒi feˈʁe(j).ɾu | isˈpe.tu d͡ʒi ˈpaw/, [ẽj̃ ˈka.zɐ d͡ʒi feˈhe(ɪ̯).ɾu | isˈpe.tu d͡ʒi ˈpaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 34 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for em casa de ferreiro, espeto de pau is 34 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽj̃ ˈka.zɐ d͡ʒi feˈʁe(j).ɾu | isˈpe.tu d͡ʒi ˈpaw/, [ẽj̃ ˈka.zɐ d͡ʒi feˈhe(ɪ̯).ɾu | isˈpe.tu d͡ʒi ˈpaʊ̯]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for em casa de ferreiro, espeto de pau in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is em casa de ferreiro, espeto de pau, spelled E-M- -C-A-S-A- -D-E- -F-E-R-R-E-I-R-O-,- -E-S-P-E-T-O- -D-E- -P-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1diz-se daquele que, tendo o conhecimento de algo, incoerentemente não o aplica a si mesmo (como um ferreiro que, fabricando peças de metal para os outros, tem contudo algo para uso ao fogo feito em madeira, que é combustível ou pouco adequado ao fim a que se destina)
- 2diz-se quando as coisas não existem no lugar que seria natural que existissem
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