cafelo

Macanese

Etymology

From dialectal Portuguese cafelo (“first plaster or mortar on a wall”).

Noun

cafelo

  1. plastering or patching of walls

Usage notes

  • The Macanese term refers to any plastering or patching of walls, not necessarily the first plaster.

Derived terms

References

  • Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 338

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈfe.lu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈfe.lo/

  • Hyphenation: ca‧fe‧lo

Noun

cafelo m (plural cafelos)

  1. the first layer of mortar on a wall

Descendants

  • Macanese: cafelo
  • Macanese: cafelâ, cafulâ
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