envés
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈvɛ(j)s/ [ẽˈvɛ(ɪ̯)s], (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈvɛ(j)s/ [ĩˈvɛ(ɪ̯)s]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈvɛ(j)ʃ/ [ẽˈvɛ(ɪ̯)ʃ], (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈvɛ(j)ʃ/ [ĩˈvɛ(ɪ̯)ʃ]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽˈvɛʃ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽˈbɛʃ/
- Hyphenation: en‧vés
Noun
envés m (plural enveses)
Further reading
- “envés”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “envés”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin inversus. Doublet of inverso and anverso.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /emˈbes/ [ẽmˈbes]
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: en‧vés
Noun
envés m (plural enveses)
Further reading
- “envés”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025