arpéu
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French harpeau. By surface analysis, arpão + -éu.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: ar‧péu
Noun
[edit]arpéu m (plural arpéus)
- (nautical) grappling, grapple (tool with claws or hooks)
- (nautical) grapnel (small anchor)
- Synonyms: fateixa, atiradeira
- (fishing) treble hook
- Synonym: garateia
- (figurative) something that catches, holds or harms like a grapple
- (in the plural, colloquial) nails
- (Brazil, fantasy) graphorn (magical creature from the Harry Potter series)
Further reading
[edit]- “arpéu” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “arpéu” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “arpéu” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “arpéu” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old French
- Portuguese terms derived from Old French
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -éu
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Nautical
- pt:Fishing
- Portuguese colloquialisms
- Brazilian Portuguese
- pt:Fantasy
- pt:Harry Potter