mordaça

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mordacia, from Latin mordāx, mordācia (“biting”).[1] Compare Spanish mordaza and Italian mordacchia.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /moʁˈda.sɐ/ [moɦˈda.sɐ]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /moɾˈda.sɐ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /moʁˈda.sɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /moɻˈda.sa/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /muɾˈda.sɐ/ [muɾˈða.sɐ]

  • Rhymes: -asɐ
  • Hyphenation: mor‧da‧ça

Noun

mordaça f (plural mordaças)

  1. gag (object placed in someone’s mouth to prevent them from speaking and biting)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “mordaça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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