mascavo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /masˈka.vu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /maʃˈka.vu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /masˈka.vo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐʃˈka.vu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐʃˈka.bu/ [mɐʃˈka.βu]

Etymology 1

Deverbal from mascavar (“to adulterate, to lessen”), corrupted from menoscabar, from Vulgar Latin *minuscapāre.

Adjective

mascavo (feminine mascava, masculine plural mascavos, feminine plural mascavas, not comparable)

(obsolete) adulterated, unrefined
(of sugar) brown, and with flavour of molasses

Verb

mascavo

first-person singular present indicative of mascavar

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