careto

See also: ĉareto

Latin

Verb

carētō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of careō

Portuguese

careto

Etymology

From careta (“grimace, mask”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾe.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾe.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾe.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈɾe.tu/

• Rhymes: -etu
• Hyphenation: ca‧re‧to

Noun

careto m (plural caretos)

1. (regional, Portugal) a masked figure in the Portuguese carnival tradition of Trás-os-Montes

Further reading

• careto on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “careto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “careto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From cara +‎ -eto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾeto/ [kaˈɾe.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: ca‧re‧to

Adjective

careto (feminine careta, masculine plural caretos, feminine plural caretas)

1. white-headed and black-bodied
2. (colloquial, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela) dirty-faced

Noun

careto m (plural caretos)

1. (colloquial) face

Derived terms

• ánsar careto grande
• dar el careto
• lirón careto

Further reading

• “careto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025