contraforte - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• (Brazil) IPA(key): /kõ.tɾaˈfɔʁ.t͡ʃi/ [kõ.tɾaˈfɔh.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /kõ.tɾaˈfɔʁ.t͡ʃi/ [kõ.tɾaˈfɔh.t͡ʃi]

  • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /kõ.tɾaˈfɔɾ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /kõ.tɾaˈfɔʁ.t͡ʃi/ [kõ.tɾaˈfɔχ.t͡ʃi]
  • (Caipira) IPA(key): /kõ.tɾaˈfɔɻ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kõ.tɾaˈfɔʁ.te/ [kõ.tɾaˈfɔh.te]

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /kõ.tɾɐˈfɔɾ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: con‧tra‧for‧te

contraforte m (plural contrafortes)

1. (architecture) buttress (brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it)
   Synonym: botaréu
2. buttress (feature jutting out from mountain)
3. buttress (anything that serves to support something else)

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

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