insectívoro
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.sɛˈti.vu.ɾu/, /ĩ.sɛˈkti.vu.ɾu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.sɛˈti.bu.ɾu/ [ĩ.sɛˈti.βu.ɾu], /ĩ.sɛˈkti.bu.ɾu/ [ĩ.sɛˈkti.βu.ɾu]
- Hyphenation: in‧sec‧tí‧vo‧ro
Adjective
insectívoro (feminine insectívora, masculine plural insectívoros, feminine plural insectívoras) (European Portuguese spelling)
- insectivorous (that eats insects)
Noun
insectívoro m (plural insectívoros) (European Portuguese spelling)
- insectivore (animal that feeds on insects)
Further reading
- “insectívoro” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “insectívoro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “insectívoro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “insectívoro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin insectivorus. By surface analysis, Latin insecto + Latin -i + Latin vorō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inseɡˈtiboɾo/ [ĩn.seɣ̞ˈt̪i.β̞o.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -iboɾo
- Syllabification: in‧sec‧tí‧vo‧ro
Adjective
insectívoro (feminine insectívora, masculine plural insectívoros, feminine plural insectívoras)
Noun
insectívoro m (plural insectívoros)
Further reading
- “insectívoro”, 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