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chapéu

chapéu

See also: chapèu

Portuguese

Chapéu

Noun

chapéu m (plural chapéus)

  1. hat (head covering)
  2. (informal) circumflex accent (the diacritic mark ^)

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:chapéu.

Synonyms

Descendants

Etymology

Borrowing from Old French chapel, from Vulgar Latin *cappellus, from Late Latin cappa.

Compare Galician chapeu, Spanish chapeo, chapeau, Catalan capell, Occitan capèl, French chapeau, and Italian cappello (the Galician and Spanish also being borrowings from French).

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʃɐ.ˈpɛw/
  • Hyphenation: cha‧péu

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