raposa
Galician
Etymology
See raposo. Compare Portuguese raposa, Spanish raposa.
Noun
raposa f (plural raposas)
- vixen (animal)
Related terms
Portuguese
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish raposa (“fox”), probably from rabo (“tail”), from Latin rāpum (“turnip”) + -ōsus, and influenced by descendants of rapiō (“snatch, grab”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ra‧po‧sa
Noun
raposa f (plural raposas)
- fox (any canid of the genus Vulpes)
- 2015, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Príncipe, Pelekanos Books →ISBN
- – Os homens, disse a raposa, têm fuzis e caçam. É bem incômodo!
- “The men”, said the fox, “have rifles and they hunt. It’s quite bothersome!”
- – Os homens, disse a raposa, têm fuzis e caçam. É bem incômodo!
- 2015, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Príncipe, Pelekanos Books →ISBN
- (specifically) vixen (female fox)
- (Brazil) opposum (any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae)
- (usually derogatory) fox (a sly or cunning person)
Usage notes
Raposa is one of the few feminines that are used by default (when the referent’s sex is unknown or irrelevant).
Synonyms
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
See raposo.
Noun
raposa f (plural raposas, masculine raposo, masculine plural raposos)
- (deprecated template usage) feminine equivalent of raposo vixen
Synonyms
Categories:
- Galician lemmas
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- Galician countable nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- gl:Canids
- gl:Mammals
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- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
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- Brazilian Portuguese
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