bigorna
French
Pronunciation
Verb
bigorna
- third-person singular past historic of bigorner
Portuguese
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *bicŏrnĭa (“anvil”), from Latin bicornis (“two-horned”), from bi- (“two”) + cornī (“horns”), nominalized in the feminine with -a. Cognate with Spanish bigornia, Galician bigorna, French bigorne, early modern Italian bicornia, Andalusian Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, and Algerian Arabic بقرنية (buqurnīya).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /biˈɡɔʁ.nɐ/ [biˈɡɔɦ.nɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /biˈɡɔɾ.nɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /biˈɡɔʁ.nɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /biˈɡɔɻ.na/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /biˈɡɔɾ.nɐ/ [biˈɣɔɾ.nɐ]
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔʁnɐ, (Portugal) -ɔɾnɐ
Noun
bigorna f (plural bigornas)
Derived terms
- abigornado
- estar entre o martelo e a bigorna
Further reading
- “bigorna”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “bigorna”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025