palafita

See also: palafită

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian palafitta.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.laˈfi.tɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.laˈfi.ta/

  • Rhymes: -itɐ

Noun

palafita f (plural palafitas)

  1. lake dwelling, stilt house (a house raised on stilts over the surface of the soil or a body of water)
    • 2024 May 10, Monica Prestes, “Tubulação suspensa coleta esgoto de palafitas em Manaus”, in Folha de S.Paulo‎[1]:
      No cenário urbano de Manaus, a mais populosa cidade da Amazônia, sétima do Brasil, milhares de pessoas vivem em palafitas, moradias tradicionais de áreas de várzea, sustentadas por estacas cravadas no solo— que, quando não está alagado, fica coberto de lixo e dejetos de todo tipo.
      In the urban landscape of Manaus, the most populous city in the Amazon and the seventh largest in Brazil, thousands of people live in stilt houses, traditional dwellings in floodplain areas, supported by stakes driven into the ground— which, when not flooded, is covered with trash and waste of all kinds.

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