olho por olho, dente por dente
Letters
30 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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olho por olho, dente por dente is aPortuguesephrase. It means: máxima bíblica que resume a adoção de justiça vingativa na qual paga-se um mal com outro mal idêntico
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olho por olho, dente por dente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for olho por olho, dente por dente is 30 letters long, classified as aphrase. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for olho por olho, dente por dente in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 olho por olho, dente por dente, spelled O-L-H-O- -P-O-R- -O-L-H-O-,- -D-E-N-T-E- -P-O-R- -D-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1máxima bíblica que resume a adoção de justiça vingativa na qual paga-se um mal com outro mal idêntico
- 2expressão que resume um momento histórico do direito penal onde a justiça é meramente retributiva, ou seja, consiste na rigorosa reciprocidade do crime com a pena a ser aplicada, com origem no Código de Hamurabi
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