pequiá
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6 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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pequiá is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o mesmo que pequi Pronounced /pe.kiˈa/ [pe.kɪˈa], /peˈkja/ (coloquial).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pequiá |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pe.kiˈa/ [pe.kɪˈa], /peˈkja/ (coloquial) |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for pequiá is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pe.kiˈa/ [pe.kɪˈa], /peˈkja/ (coloquial). It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pequiá 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 pequiá, spelled P-E-Q-U-I-Á, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o mesmo que pequi
- 2árvore (Caryocar villosum) típica da floresta pluvial da Amazônia brasileira e Guiana Francesa, da família das cariocaráceas, com frutos e lenho semelhantes ao pequi, de grande porte e madeira usada para a construção de embarcações, flores de cor amarelada e frutos e sementes comestíveis
- 3nome comum a várias árvores apocináceas (do gênero Aspidosperma, particularmente a A. parvifolium) nativas do Brasil, endêmicas, de ocorrência nos estados da Região Sudeste do país e de madeira apreciada
- 4por extensão, o fruto e a madeira dessas árvores
- 5bastão ou bengala feita com essa madeira
- 6cesto de pequenas dimensões feito de taquara
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