abatedouro
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Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From abater (“to butcher”) + -douro (suffix indicating location). Cognate with English and French abattoir.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: a‧ba‧te‧dou‧ro
Noun
[edit]abatedouro m (plural abatedouros)
- (Brazil) slaughterhouse (place where animals are slaughtered)
- (Brazil, slang) a bedroom, referred to as a place for casual sex
Further reading
[edit]- “abatedouro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024