meio-tempo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmej.uˈtẽ.pu/ [ˌmeɪ̯.uˈtẽ.pu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmej.oˈtẽ.po/ [ˌmeɪ̯.oˈtẽ.po]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmɐj.uˈtẽ.pu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmej.uˈtẽ.pu/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmej.uˈtẽ.pu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌme.uˈtẽ.pu/

Hyphenation: mei‧o‧tem‧po

Noun

meio-tempo m (plural meios-tempos)

(sports) half time (interval between halves of a match)
Synonym: intervalo
(by extension) an interval of time between two events

Further reading

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