joanete
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish juanete, from Juanete, diminutive of Juan. It is a name common in rural areas, whose depreciative stereotype in older times was the inhabitants having bunions, that is, "joanetes".[1]
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: jo‧a‧ne‧te
Noun
[edit]joanete m (plural joanetes)
References
[edit]- ^ “joanete”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024