espaguete
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /espɐˈɣɛtɪ/
Noun
espaguete m (plural espaguetes)
- a piece of spaguetti
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian spaghetti (“spaghetti”), plural of spaghetto, diminutive of spago (“cord, string”), from Latin spagus (“string”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.paˈɡɛ.t͡ʃi/, /es.paˈɡɛ.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʃ.paˈɡɛ.t͡ʃi/, /eʃ.paˈɡɛ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /es.paˈɡɛ.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /(i)ʃ.paˈɡɛ.tɨ/ [(i)ʃ.paˈɣɛ.tɨ]
- Rhymes: -ɛt͡ʃi
- Hyphenation: es‧pa‧gue‧te
Noun
espaguete m (usually uncountable, plural espaguetes)
- (Brazil) spaghetti (pasta)
- Synonym: (Portugal) esparguete
Hypernyms
Related terms
- espaguetificação
Further reading
- “espaguete”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “espaguete”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026