cloreto

Portuguese

Etymology

From cloro (“chorine”) +‎ -eto (“-ide”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kloˈɾe.tu/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kluˈɾe.tu/

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

Noun

cloreto m (plural cloretos)

1. (inorganic chemistry) chloride

Further reading

• “cloreto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cloreto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026