trecho

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trecho. From Latin tractus. Doublet of tracto, which was a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾeʃu/
• Hyphenation: tre‧cho

Noun

trecho m (plural trechos)

1. excerpt; passage; snippet (small extract from a larger work)

   Ele citou um trecho da Bíblia.

   He quoted a passage from the Bible.

   Synonyms: passagem, excerto

2. stretch (a section of a road, route, trip or period)

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Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tractus. Doublet of tracto, which was a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾet͡ʃo/ [ˈt̪ɾe.t͡ʃo]

• Hyphenation: tre‧cho

• Rhymes: -etʃo

Noun

trecho m (plural trechos)

1. distance, stretch, extension (in space or time)

   Synonym: tramo

2. way, trail, walk

Derived terms

• a trechos
• de trecho en trecho
• del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho
• trechear

Related terms

• traer
• tracto
• tratar
• trato

• trazar
• trechar
• pertrecho

Verb

trecho

1. first-person singular present indicative of trechar

Further reading

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