émulo

See also: emulo, emuló, and emulò

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• êmulo (Brazil)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aemulus.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.mu.lu/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛmulu
• Hyphenation: é‧mu‧lo

Noun

émulo m (plural émulos, feminine émula, feminine plural émulas)

1. rival, competitor

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin aemulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈemulo/ [ˈe.mu.lo]
• Rhymes: -emulo
• Syllabification: é‧mu‧lo

Noun

émulo m (plural émulos, feminine émula, feminine plural émulas)

1. rival, competitor

Further reading

• “émulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014