meretriz
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin meretrīcem.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /me.ɾeˈtɾis/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /me.ɾeˈtɾiʃ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.ɾɨˈtɾiʃ/
- Hyphenation: me‧re‧triz
Noun
meretriz f (plural meretrizes)
- hooker, whore, prostitute
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostituta
Related terms
Further reading
- “meretriz”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin meretrīcem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meɾeˈtɾiθ/ [me.ɾeˈt̪ɾiθ] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /meɾeˈtɾis/ [me.ɾeˈt̪ɾis] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iθ (Spain)
- Rhymes: -is (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: me‧re‧triz
Noun
meretriz f (plural meretrices)
- hooker, whore, prostitute
- Synonym: prostituta
- 1885, Leopoldo Alas, chapter 1, in La Regenta, volume 1, published 2006, →ISBN:
- Pero, sin pensarlo, daba una intención lúbrica y cínica a su mirada, como una meretriz de calleja, que anuncia su triste comercio con los ojos, sin que la policía pueda reivindicar los derechos de la moral pública.
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Further reading
- “meretriz”, 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