falangeta

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• phalangeta (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ-der.?

Pre-Greekder.

Ancient Greek φᾰ́λᾰγξ (phắlănx)bor.

Latin phalangemlbor.

Portuguese falange

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Latin -ittus

Old French -ete

Middle French -ettebor.

Old Galician-Portuguese -eta

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Italian -ettainflu.

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French -etteinflu.

Portuguese -eta

Portuguese falangeta

From falange (“phalange”) + -eta.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fa.lɐ̃ˈʒe.tɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐ.lɐ̃ˈʒe.tɐ/

• Hyphenation: fa‧lan‧ge‧ta

Noun

falangeta f (plural falangetas)

1. (anatomy) distal phalange

   Synonym: falange distal

Hypernyms

• falange, osso

Holonyms

• dedo

Coordinate terms

• falange proximal, falange média, falange, falanginha

Further reading

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