apotropismo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.po.tɾoˈpiz.mu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.po.tɾoˈpiʒ.mu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.po.tɾoˈpiz.mo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.pu.tɾuˈpiʒ.mu/

Hyphenation: a‧po‧tro‧pis‧mo

Noun

apotropismo m (uncountable)

(religion, mysticism) apotropaism (the use of ritual or other magical means to avert evil or bad luck)

Further reading

“apotropismo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“apotropismo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026