encontro

See also: encontró

Galician

Etymology 1

Noun

encontro m (plural encontros)

1. meeting, encounter

Etymology 2

Verb

encontro

1. first-person singular present indicative of encontrar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful) /ẽˈkõ.tɾu/, /ĩˈkõ.tɾu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽˈkõ.tɾu/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -õtɾu
• Hyphenation: en‧con‧tro

Etymology 1

Deverbal from encontrar (“to find; to meet with”).

Noun

encontro m (plural encontros)

1. meeting; gathering; get-together; meet-up
2. date (romantic meeting)

   Synonym: date

3. the act of finding something
4. bump (a light collision)
5. epaulet oriole (Icterus cayanensis, a bird of South America)
6. (phonetics) cluster

Related terms

• encontrão
• encontro às cegas
• encontro consonantal
• encontro vocálico

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

encontro

1. first-person singular present indicative of encontrar

Further reading

• “encontro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “encontro”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “encontro”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “encontro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “encontro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN