promontório

See also: promontorio and Promontorio

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• promontorio (obsolete)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin prōmontōrium, alternative form of prōmunturium (“peak; promontory”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾo.mõˈtɔ.ɾju/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾu.mõˈtɔ.ɾju/

• Hyphenation: pro‧mon‧tó‧ri‧o

Noun

promontório m (plural promontórios)

1. (geology) promontory (a high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff)

Hypernyms

• cabo

Derived terms

• promontório do osso sacro

Related terms

• promontorial

Further reading

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