esdrúxulo
Galician
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian sdrucciolo.
Adjective
esdrúxulo (feminine esdrúxula, masculine plural esdrúxulos, feminine plural esdrúxulas)
- proparoxytone (whose stress in on the antepenultimate syllable)
- Synonym: proparoxítono
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian sdrucciolo.[1][2] Compare Spanish esdrújulo.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /izˈdɾu.ʃu.lu/, /ezˈdɾu.ʃu.lu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʒˈdɾu.ʃu.lu/, /eʒˈdɾu.ʃu.lu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ezˈdɾu.ʃu.lo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /(i)ʒˈdɾu.ʃu.lu/ [(i)ʒˈðɾu.ʃu.lu]
- Hyphenation: es‧drú‧xu‧lo
Adjective
esdrúxulo (feminine esdrúxula, masculine plural esdrúxulos, feminine plural esdrúxulas)
- (phonetics) proparoxytone (whose stress in on the antepenultimate syllable)
- Synonym: proparoxítono
- weird; strange; bizarre
Noun
esdrúxulo m (plural esdrúxulos)
- proparoxytone (a word which has the stress in on the antepenultimate syllable)
- Synonyms: proparoxítona, proparoxítono
- Coordinate terms: oxítono, paroxítono
References
- ^ “esdrúxulo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- ^ “esdrúxulo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025