cuneta

Portuguese

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈne.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈne.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈne.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈne.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -etɐ
• Hyphenation: cu‧ne‧ta

Noun

cuneta f (plural cunetas)

1. jackdaw (bird of the genus Coloeus)

   Synonyms: chuca, gralho

Further reading

• “cuneta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cuneta” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cuneta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “cuneta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cunetta. Piecewise doublet of lagunita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈneta/ [kuˈne.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: cu‧ne‧ta

Noun

cuneta f (plural cunetas)

1. roadside ditch
   • 2019 August 26, Jaime Susanna, “El Coleta: el fenómeno quinqui del momento que conduce un BMW”, in El País‎^[1], Madrid, →ISSN:

     El cine quinqui apenas dejó supervivientes: El Pirri fue hallado muerto por sobredosis en una cuneta con 23 años; José Luis Manzano, con 29 por la misma razón; […]

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2. ditch

   Synonym: trinchera

3. gutter

   Synonym: zanja

Further reading

• “cuneta”, 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