xenartro

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Xenarthra.

Noun

xenartro m (plural xenartri)

xenarthran

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Xenarthra, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, alien”) + ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃeˈnaʁ.tɾu/ [ʃeˈnah.tɾu]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʃeˈnaɾ.tɾu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʃeˈnaʁ.tɾu/ [ʃeˈnaχ.tɾu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃeˈnaɻ.tɾo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɨˈnaɾ.tɾu/

Hyphenation: xe‧nar‧tro

Noun

xenartro m (plural xenartros)

xenarthran
Synonyms: edentado, desdentado

Further reading

“xenartro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025