corveta

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French corvette.[1][2]

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈve.tɐ/ [koɦˈve.tɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koɾˈve.tɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koʁˈve.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻˈve.ta/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈve.tɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈbe.tɐ/ [kuɾˈβe.tɐ]

Homophone: curveta (Portugal)
Hyphenation: cor‧ve‧ta

Noun

corveta f (plural corvetas)

corvette (ship)
Synonym: (Brazil) fragatinha

References

“corveta” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
“corveta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Noun

corveta f (plural corvetas)

corvette

Further reading

“corveta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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