hortelã
Appearance
See also: hortelá
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin hortulana, feminine of hortulanus (“gardener”).
Pronunciation
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- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ɔh.tɛˈlɐ̃/
- (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /uɹ.tiˈlɐ̃/
Audio (Brazil (Caipira)): (file) - Rhymes: -ɐ̃
- Hyphenation: hor‧te‧lã
Noun
[edit]hortelã f (plural hortelãs)
- female equivalent of hortelão
- mint (any of several aromatic plants of the family Lamiaceae)
- Particularly, spearmint (Mentha spicata)
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Kabuverdianu: ortolom
Further reading
[edit]- “hortelã”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “hortelã”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “hortelã”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Categories:
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese female equivalent nouns
- pt:Mints