fêmur
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin femur (“thigh”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfẽ.muʁ/ [ˈfẽ.muh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈfẽ.muɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈfẽ.muʁ/ [ˈfẽ.muχ]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /ˈfẽ.muɻ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfe.muʁ/ [ˈfe.muh]
- Hyphenation: fê‧mur
Noun
fêmur m (plural fêmures) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)
Hypernyms
Related terms
Further reading
- “fêmur”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “fêmur”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026