expletivo
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin expletīvus.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /(i)ʃ.plɛˈti.vu/, /ɐjʃ.plɛˈti.vu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /(i)ʃ.plɛˈti.bu/ [(i)ʃ.plɛˈti.βu], /ejʃ.plɛˈti.bu/ [ejʃ.plɛˈti.βu]
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /(i)ʃ.plɛˈti.vu/, /ejʃ.plɛˈti.vu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /(i)ʃ.plɛˈti.vu/, /eʃ.plɛˈti.vu/
- Rhymes: -ivu
- Hyphenation: ex‧ple‧ti‧vo
Adjective
expletivo (feminine expletiva, masculine plural expletivos, feminine plural expletivas)
Noun
expletivo m (plural expletivos)
- (grammar) expletive (word that performs a syntactic role but contributes nothing to meaning)
- Synonym: expletiva
Further reading
- “expletivo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “expletivo”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “expletivo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “expletivo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “expletivo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “expletivo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin expletīvus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɡspleˈtibo/ [eɣ̞s.pleˈt̪i.β̞o]
- Rhymes: -ibo
- Syllabification: ex‧ple‧ti‧vo
Adjective
expletivo (feminine expletiva, masculine plural expletivos, feminine plural expletivas)
- (grammar) expletive (performing a syntactic role but contributing nothing to meaning)
- Synonym: expletiva
Further reading
- “expletivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024