medidor
Portuguese
Etymology
From medir (“to measure”) + -dor.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈdoʁ/ [me.d͡ʒiˈdoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈdoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈdoʁ/ [me.d͡ʒiˈdoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈdoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.diˈdoɾ/ [mɨ.ðiˈðoɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.diˈdo.ɾi/ [mɨ.ðiˈðo.ɾi]
- Rhymes: -oɾ, -oʁ
- Hyphenation: me‧di‧dor
Adjective
medidor (feminine medidora, masculine plural medidores, feminine plural medidoras)
Noun
medidor m (plural medidores, feminine medidora, feminine plural medidoras)
- measurer (one who, or that which, measures)
Noun
medidor m (plural medidores)
- meter (measuring instrument)
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mediˈdoɾ/ [me.ð̞iˈð̞oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: me‧di‧dor
Adjective
medidor (feminine medidora, masculine plural medidores, feminine plural medidoras)
Noun
medidor m (plural medidores)
- measurer
- jigger (small double-ended vessel)
- Synonym: dedo
- (Latin America) meter (device that measures things)
- Synonyms: contador, remarcador
Derived terms
Further reading
- “medidor”, 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