cloreto

Portuguese

Etymology

From cloro (“chorine”) +‎ -eto (“-ide”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kloˈɾe.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kloˈɾe.to/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kluˈɾe.tu/

Rhymes: -etu
Hyphenation: clo‧re‧to

Noun

cloreto m (plural cloretos)

(inorganic chemistry) chloride

Further reading

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