grevista

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French gréviste. By surface analysis, greve +‎ -ista.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡɾeˈvis.tɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ɡɾeˈviʃ.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡɾeˈvis.ta/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɾɛˈviʃ.tɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɾɛˈbiʃ.tɐ/ [ɡɾɛˈβiʃ.tɐ]

Rhymes: (Brazil) -istɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtɐ
Hyphenation: gre‧vis‧ta

Noun

grevista m or f by sense (plural grevistas)

striker (one who is on strike)

Further reading

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