invés
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- envés (obsolete or misspelling)
Etymology
From Latin inversus (“upside down”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩˈvɛ(j)s/ [ĩˈvɛ(ɪ̯)s]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ĩˈvɛ(j)ʃ/ [ĩˈvɛ(ɪ̯)ʃ]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩˈvɛʃ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩˈbɛʃ/
- Rhymes: -ɛs
- Hyphenation: in‧vés
Noun
invés m (uncountable)
Usage notes
Not to be confused with "em vez" (as in em vez de).
Derived terms
Further reading
- “invés”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026