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rangífer

Learned borrowing from Latin rangiferō.

(Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈʒi.fe.ɾu/ [hɐ̃ˈʒi.fe.ɾu]
(Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈʒi.fe.ɾu/ [hɐ̃ˈʒi.fe.ɾu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈʒi.fe.ɾu/ [χɐ̃ˈʒi.fe.ɾu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈʒi.fe.ɾo/ [hɐ̃ˈʒi.fe.ɾo]
(Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈʒi.fɨ.ɾu/
Hyphenation: ran‧gí‧fe‧ro

rangífero m (plural rangíferos)

reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
Synonym: rena

“rangífero”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“rangífero”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
rengífero
IPA(key): /ranˈxifeɾo/ [rãŋˈxi.fe.ɾo]
Rhymes: -ifeɾo
Syllabification: ran‧gí‧fe‧ro

rangífero m (plural rangíferos)

reindeer
Synonyms: reno, caribú
- 1914, Tercer Censo Nacional, volume 2, Buenos Aires, page 20:
  [El huemul] tiene la talla de un rengífero, salvo la cornamenta, que es mucho más pequeña y que adorno sólo la cabeza del macho.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

“rangífero”, 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
“rangífero”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN