quartzo

Portuguese

Alternative forms

quarço

Etymology

Borrowed from German Quarz, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *tvьrdъ (“hard”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkwaʁt.su/ [ˈkwaht.su]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈkwaɾt.su/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkwaʁt.su/ [ˈkwaχt.su]
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈkwaɻt.su/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkwaʁt.so/ [ˈkwaht.so]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkwaɾ.tsu/

Noun

quartzo m (plural quartzos)

(mineralogy) quartz

Further reading

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