carcaça

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French carcasse, from Old French charcois.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈka.sɐ/ [kahˈka.sɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kaɾˈka.sɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈka.sɐ/ [kaχˈka.sɐ]
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /kaɻˈka.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁˈka.sa/ [kahˈka.sa]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾˈka.sɐ/

Rhymes: -asɐ
Hyphenation: car‧ca‧ça

Noun

carcaça f (plural carcaças)

carcass
(Portugal, cooking) bread roll
Synonym: papo-seco

Further reading

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