cação

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈθoŋ/

Noun

cação m (plural cações, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of cazón

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [kaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

Noun

cação m (plural cações)

  1. (Brazil, dialectal) a young shark
  2. (Brazil, dialectal) shark meat specifically
  3. shark (of any age)

Usage notes

The gender of this Portuguese zoonym is always masculine: when the gender of the being itself must be specified, cação-macho for male and cação-fêmea for female. Here, fêmea is treated as an undeclinable noun and doesn't necessarily need to agree in gender with the referent, but would change to fêmeo if so.

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