acaju
Appearance
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
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Borrowed from Old Tupi akaîu.[1] The preservation of initial A and the use for the mahogany wood were influenced by French acajou, in comparison to the doublet caju.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: a‧ca‧ju
Noun
[edit]acaju m (plural acajus)
- (uncountable) acajou, mahogany (wood from the mahogany tree)
- Synonym: mogno
- mahogany (reddish-brown colour)
- Alternative form of caju (“cashew”)
Adjective
[edit]acaju m or f (plural acajus)
- mahogany (having the colour of mahogany)
Descendants
[edit]- → Hunsrik: akaschu
References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “acaju”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 21, column 2
- “acaju”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “acaju”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “acaju”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]acaju m or f or n (indeclinable)
- Reddish-brown, mahogany.
Declension
[edit]invariable | singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | acaju | acaju | acaju | acaju | |||
definite | — | — | — | — | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | acaju | acaju | acaju | acaju | |||
definite | — | — | — | — |
Noun
[edit]acaju m (plural acaju)
Declension
[edit]- Because of its unusual ending, this noun cannot be inflected normally. Inflected forms are often avoided.
Categories:
- Portuguese terms derived from French
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Tupi
- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/u
- Rhymes:Portuguese/u/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- Portuguese adjectives
- pt:Woods
- pt:Browns
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian adjectives
- Romanian indeclinable adjectives
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- ro:Colors
- ro:Trees