alface

Portuguese
alface (Lactuca sativa)

Alternative forms
  • alfaça (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الْخَسّ.[1][2] First attested in c. 16th century, but the variant alfaça is attested as early as 1279.[3] Cognate with Maltese ħass.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /awˈfa.si/ [aʊ̯ˈfa.si]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /awˈfa.se/ [aʊ̯ˈfa.se]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /alˈfa.sɨ/ [aɫˈfa.sɨ]

  • Hyphenation: al‧fa‧ce

Noun

alface f or (nonstandard) m (plural alfaces)

  1. lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
    Synonyms: leituga, salada
  2. (by extension) any plant in the genus Lactuca

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:alface.

Derived terms

References
  1. “alface” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. “alface” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
  3. José Pedro Machado (1995) “Alface”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 189
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