prestidigitador
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French prestidigitateur. By surface analysis, prestidigitar + -dor.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾes.t͡ʃi.d͡ʒi.ʒi.taˈdoʁ/ [pɾes.t͡ʃi.d͡ʒi.ʒi.taˈdoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /pɾes.t͡ʃi.d͡ʒi.ʒi.taˈdoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /pɾeʃ.t͡ʃi.d͡ʒi.ʒi.taˈdoʁ/ [pɾeʃ.t͡ʃi.d͡ʒi.ʒi.taˈdoχ]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /pɾes.t͡ʃi.d͡ʒi.ʒi.taˈdoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɾɨʃ.ti.di.ʒi.tɐˈdoɾ/ [pɾɨʃ.ti.ði.ʒi.tɐˈðoɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /pɾɨʃ.ti.di.ʒi.tɐˈdo.ɾi/ [pɾɨʃ.ti.ði.ʒi.tɐˈðo.ɾi]
- Hyphenation: pres‧ti‧di‧gi‧ta‧dor
Noun
prestidigitador m (plural prestidigitadores, feminine prestidigitadora, feminine plural prestidigitadoras)
- prestidigitator (one who performs sleight-of-hand)
Further reading
- “prestidigitador”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “prestidigitador”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾestidixitaˈdoɾ/ [pɾes.t̪i.ð̞i.xi.t̪aˈð̞oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: pres‧ti‧di‧gi‧ta‧dor
Noun
prestidigitador m (plural prestidigitadores, feminine prestidigitadora, feminine plural prestidigitadoras)
- prestidigitator (one who performs sleight-of-hand)
- Synonym: (Philippines) salamanquero
Further reading
- “prestidigitador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025