mortiço
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /moʁˈt͡ʃi.su/ [mohˈt͡ʃi.su]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /moɾˈt͡ʃi.su/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /moʁˈt͡ʃi.su/ [moχˈt͡ʃi.su]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /moɻˈt͡ʃi.so/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /muɾˈti.su/
- Hyphenation: mor‧ti‧ço
Adjective
mortiço (feminine mortiça, masculine plural mortiços, feminine plural mortiças)
- dull, dim, lifeless
- 1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho:
- Através das pálpebras fechadas, quando por várias vezes acordou durante a noite, percebera a mortiça claridade das lâmpadas que mal iluminavam a camarata, […]
- Through closed eyelids she could, when she woke up several times during the night, perceive the dim clearness of the lights, which badly illuminated the dormitory, […]
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