timpânico
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tympanicus.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /t͡ʃĩˈpɐ̃.ni.ku/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /t͡ʃĩˈpɐ.ni.ko/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tĩˈpɐ.ni.ku/
- Hyphenation: tim‧pâ‧ni‧co
Adjective
timpânico (feminine timpânica, masculine plural timpânicos, feminine plural timpânicas)
- pertaining to eardrum or tympanism
- (medicine) which is obtained by percussion of a part of the body and which resembles the sound produced by a drum
- (anatomy) related to the eardrum
Synonyms
Further reading
- “timpânico”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025