carcamano

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁ.kaˈmɐ̃.nu/ [kah.kaˈmɐ̃.nu]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kaɾ.kaˈmɐ̃.nu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaʁ.kaˈmɐ̃.nu/ [kaχ.kaˈmɐ̃.nu]
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /kaɻ.kaˈmɐ̃.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁ.kaˈmɐ.no/ [kah.kaˈmɐ.no]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾ.kɐˈmɐ.nu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾ.kɐˈma.nu/

Hyphenation: car‧ca‧ma‧no

Noun

carcamano m (plural carcamanos, feminine carcamana, feminine plural carcamanas)

(Brazil, ethnic slur) guido (derogatory term for a person of Italian descent)
Synonym: macarrone

Further reading

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