melão
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Etymology
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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese melon, from Late Latin mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepō, borrowed from Koine Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: me‧lão
Noun
[edit]melão m (plural melões)
- melon (fruit)
- (colloquial) breast
Derived terms
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[edit]- Kadiwéu: melo
Further reading
[edit]- “melão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “melão”, in Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss [Houaiss Electronic Dictionary] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: UOL, 2004–2026
- “melão”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “melão”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “melão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Categories:
- Portuguese terms derived from Koine Greek
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pekʷ-
- Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Late Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese colloquialisms
- pt:Fruits
