paletó
Portuguese
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French paletot, from English paltok.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔ
Noun
[edit]paletó m (plural paletós)
- paletot (a loose outer jacket, overcoat)
- (Brazil, slang, euphemistic) coffin, as a euphemism for death
- Synonym: caixão
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Kadiwéu: nibalito
Further reading
[edit]- “paletó”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “paletó”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from French
- Portuguese terms derived from French
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɔ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɔ/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese slang
- Portuguese euphemisms
- pt:Clothing
- pt:Death