verrina
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7 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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verrina is aPortuguesenoun. It means: nome dado a cada um dos discursos proferidos pelo tribuno romano Cícero contra o governador da Sicília, Caio Verres, acusado de corrupto e venal e que, ao final, foi exilado Pronounced /veˈʁĩ.nɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verrina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /veˈʁĩ.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for verrina is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /veˈʁĩ.nɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for verrina 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 verrina, spelled V-E-R-R-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nome dado a cada um dos discursos proferidos pelo tribuno romano Cícero contra o governador da Sicília, Caio Verres, acusado de corrupto e venal e que, ao final, foi exilado
- 2por extensão, todo discurso ou escrito feito de modo violento e contundente, contendo fortes críticas e repreensão dirigido a alguém
- 3por extensão, toda repreensão ou crítica feita de modo firme e emotivo, apaixonado
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