tourão

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From touro +‎ -ão (augmentative suffix).

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /to(w)ˈɾɐ̃w̃/ [to(ʊ̯)ˈɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /to(w)ˈɾɐ̃w̃/
    • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /towˈɾɐ̃w̃/
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /toˈɾɐ̃w̃/

  • Hyphenation: tou‧rão

Noun

tourão m (plural tourões)

  1. Augmentative of touro
  2. polecat (Mustela putorius, a mustelid of Eurasia)

Descendants
  • Spanish: turón

Further reading
  • “tourão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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