olho por olho, dente por dente

phrase

Letters

30 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

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

Key facts for olho por olho, dente por dente
PropertyValue
Headwordolho por olho, dente por dente
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters30
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

olho por olho, dente por dente is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    máxima bíblica que resume a adoção de justiça vingativa na qual paga-se um mal com outro mal idêntico
  2. 2
    expressão 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "olho por olho, dente por dente"?
"olho por olho, dente por dente" is 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.
What does "olho por olho, dente por dente" mean?
As a phrase, "olho por olho, dente por dente" means: máxima bíblica que resume a adoção de justiça vingativa na qual paga-se um mal com outro mal idêntico
What language does "olho por olho, dente por dente" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.