aguardente
Portuguese
Etymology
From água (“water”) + ardente (“fiery”). Cognate with Galician augardente, Spanish aguardiente and Catalan aiguardent.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌa.ɡwaʁˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/ [ˌa.ɡwaɦˈdẽ.t͡ʃi]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˌa.ɡwaɾˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˌa.ɡwaʁˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /ˌa.ɡwaɻˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌa.ɡwaʁˈdẽ.te/ [ˌa.ɡwaɦˈdẽ.te]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌa.ɡwaɾˈdẽ.tɨ/ [ˌa.ɣwaɾˈðẽ.tɨ]
- Hyphenation: a‧guar‧den‧te
Noun
aguardente f (plural aguardentes)
Derived terms
- aguardente bagaceira
- aguardente de cana
- aguardente vínica
Further reading
- aguardente on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
- “aguardente”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “aguardente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026