encaracolar
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(ʁ)/ [ẽ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(ʁ)/ [ĩ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(ʁ)/ [ẽ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(ʁ)/ [ĩ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽ.kɐ.ɾɐ.kuˈlaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽ.kɐ.ɾɐ.kuˈla.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: en‧ca‧ra‧co‧lar
Verb
encaracolar (first-person singular present encaracolo, first-person singular preterite encaracolei, past participle encaracolado)
- (transitive) to curl (to make into a curl or spiral)
Conjugation
Conjugation of encaracolar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
Further reading
- “encaracolar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “encaracolar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026