caravela
See also: caravelă
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- caravella (obsolete)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese caravela, a diminutive of cáravo, or cárabo, from Ancient Greek κᾱ́ραβος (kā́rabos, “light ship, horned beetle”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.ɾaˈvɛ.lɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.ɾaˈvɛ.la/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.ɾɐˈvɛ.lɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.ɾɐˈbɛ.lɐ/ [kɐ.ɾɐˈβɛ.lɐ]
- Rhymes: -ɛlɐ
- Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧ve‧la
Noun
caravela f (plural caravelas)
- (historical) caravel
Derived terms
Descendants
- → French: caravelle
- → Spanish: carabela
- → Catalan: caravel·la
Further reading
- “caravela”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “caravela”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025