meia-lua
Letters
8 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
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meia-lua is aPortuguesenoun. It means: a forma aparente da Lua, em quarto crescente ou quarto minguante
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meia-lua |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for meia-lua is 8 letters long, classified as anoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for meia-lua 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 meia-lua, spelled M-E-I-A---L-U-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1a forma aparente da Lua, em quarto crescente ou quarto minguante
- 2algo que tenha formato de um semicírculo
- 3embarcação pesqueira de fundo chato e proa e popa em bico
- 4espaço com forma semicircular na raiz das unhas; lúnula
- 5golpe onde o lutador gira uma das pernas no ar, apoiando a mão no chão e tendo em vista atingir o adversário com o pé
- 6semicírculo com 9,15 metros de raio, a partir da marca do pênalti até a linha horizontal da grande área
- 7movimento semicircular feito nos controlos direcionais nos respectivos pontos que envia uma sequência de comando de ir para baixo, diagonal para baixo num sentido e ir para frente no mesmo sentido que ido no anterior diagonal do conjunto
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