erva-mate

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɛʁ.vɐˈma.t͡ʃi/ [ˌɛɦ.vɐˈma.t͡ʃi]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌɛɾ.vɐˈma.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌɛʁ.vɐˈma.t͡ʃi/
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˌɛɻ.vɐˈma.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɛʁ.vaˈma.te/ [ˌɛɦ.vaˈma.te]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɛɾ.vɐˈma.tɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɛɾ.bɐˈma.tɨ/ [ˌɛɾ.βɐˈma.tɨ]

Hyphenation: er‧va‧ma‧te

Noun

erva-mate f (usually uncountable, plural ervas-mate)

maté (shrub whose leaves are used to produced the beverage maté)

Further reading

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