arrecife
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.ʁeˈsi.fi/ [a.heˈsi.fi]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.ʁeˈsi.fi/ [a.χeˈsi.fi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.ʁeˈsi.fe/ [a.heˈsi.fe]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.ʁɨˈsi.fɨ/
Noun
arrecife m (plural arrecifes)
- alternative form of recife
Further reading
- “arrecife”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “arrecife”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish [Term?], from Arabic رَصِيف (raṣīf), via Andalusian Arabic. Doublet of Recife.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /areˈθife/ [a.reˈθi.fe] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /areˈsife/ [a.reˈsi.fe] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -ife
- Syllabification: a‧rre‧ci‧fe
Noun
arrecife m (plural arrecifes)
- (geography) reef
- Synonym: escollo m
- Hyponym: arrecife de coral (“coral reef”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “arrecife”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025