meretriz
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin meretrīcem.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: me‧re‧triz
Noun
[edit]meretriz f (plural meretrizes)
- hooker, whore, prostitute
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostituta
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “meretriz”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin meretrīcem.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /meɾeˈtɾiθ/ [me.ɾeˈt̪ɾiθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /meɾeˈtɾis/ [me.ɾeˈt̪ɾis]
- Rhymes: -iθ
- Rhymes: -is
- Syllabification: me‧re‧triz
Noun
[edit]meretriz f (plural meretrices)
- hooker, whore, prostitute
- Synonym: prostituta
- 1885, Leopoldo Alas, chapter 1, in La Regenta, volume 1, published 2006, →ISBN:
- Pero, sin pensarlo, daba una intención lúbrica y cínica a su mirada, como una meretriz de calleja, que anuncia su triste comercio con los ojos, sin que la policía pueda reivindicar los derechos de la moral pública.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “meretriz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
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- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Prostitution
- Spanish terms borrowed from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/iθ
- Rhymes:Spanish/iθ/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/is
- Rhymes:Spanish/is/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish terms with quotations
- es:Prostitution