caréta
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: careta
Macanese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Merger of Portuguese careta (sense 3) and carreta. Senses 1 and 2 are a semantic loan from Cantonese 車/车 (ce1), although influence from Portuguese carro also possible.
Noun
[edit]caréta
- car
- caréta dôdo ― a fast car
- (more generally) any kind of vehicle
- careta di suzo ― cart formerly used to collect excrement (literally, “cart of excrement”)
- pussâ carêta ― to pull a rickshaw
- sentâ caréta ― to go by vehicle (as opposed to on foot)
- Unga careta já choncâ na otrunga
- A vehicle collided with another
- a grimace, frown
- Synonym: bóca-torto
- fazê caréta ― to grimace (literally, “to make grimace(s)”)
Usage notes
[edit]References
[edit]Venetian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]caréta f (plural caréte)
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- Macanese terms derived from Portuguese
- Macanese semantic loans from Cantonese
- Macanese terms derived from Cantonese
- Macanese lemmas
- Macanese nouns
- Macanese terms with collocations
- Macanese terms with usage examples
- Macanese terms calqued from Cantonese
- mzs:Automobiles
- mzs:Vehicles
- Venetian lemmas
- Venetian nouns
- Venetian feminine nouns