alcateia
See also: alcatéia
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.kaˈtɛj.ɐ/ [aʊ̯.kaˈtɛɪ̯.ɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.kaˈtɛj.a/ [aʊ̯.kaˈtɛɪ̯.a]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /al.kɐˈtɐj.ɐ/ [aɫ.kɐˈtɐj.ɐ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /al.kɐˈtej.ɐ/ [aɫ.kɐˈtej.ɐ]
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /al.kɐˈtej.ɐ/ [aɫ.kɐˈtej.ɐ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /al.kɐˈte.ɐ/ [aɫ.kɐˈte.ɐ]
- Hyphenation: al‧ca‧tei‧a
Noun
alcateia f (plural alcateias)
- (collective) wolfpack (collective noun for wolves)
- Meronym: lobo
- 1920, Teixeira de Pascoaes, Elegia da solidão:
- Lá fóra, ouve-se uivar phantastica alcateia
- Outside, a fantastic wolfpack is heard howling
- (by extension, collective) a pack of any fierce beast or being
- 1997 March, Arthur Veríssimo, “A dança da bacurinha (ou Sodoma e Gomorra)”, in Trip, volume 10, number 54, Trip Editora e Propaganda SA, page 24:
- Deitado na cama, uma alcatéia de zumbis e sacerdotisas pululavam diante da minha mente.
- Lying in bed, a pack of zombies and priestesses jumped in front of my mind.
- 2006, Jorge Duro, J. R. Bonavita, Desperte o empreendedor em você, page 11:
- Três leões eram irmãos, filhos do mesmo pai, e pertenciam a uma alcateia alegre de mais de vinte leões e leoas.
- Three lions were brothers, sons of the same father, and belonged to a happy pride of over twenty lions and lionesses.
- (figurative, collective) gang (a group of criminals or wrongdoers working together)
- 2004, Aziz Lasmar, José Seligman, Gostei mais do primeiro, Editora AGE, page 168:
- Além disso, o cidadão honesto e trabalhador que paga seus impostos e sua a camiseta trazendo para casa o pão nosso de cada dia, ainda está sujeito a trombar com uma alcatéia de bandidos, de ladrões, de salteadores que estão livres e soltos pelas ruas da cidade, ameaçando-nos em cada semáforo ou esquina da vida.
- In addition, the honest and hard-working citizen who pays his taxes and sweats his shirt bringing home our daily bread, is still subject to running into a pack of crooks, of thieves, of robbers who are free and unjailed across the streets of the city, threatening us on every traffic light or corner of life.
- (Brazil, military, collective) a fleet of military submarines
- 2012, Domingos Amaral, Enquanto Salazar dormia..., Casa das Letras, page 122:
- Entre 16 e 23 de Dezembro de 1941, uma alcateia de 10 U-Boats atacara o comboio HG-76, […]
- Between December 16 and 23 of 1941, a fleet of 10 U-Boats had attacked convoy HG-76, […]
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.kaˈtej.ɐ/ [aʊ̯.kaˈteɪ̯.ɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.kaˈtej.a/ [aʊ̯.kaˈteɪ̯.a]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /al.kɐˈtɐj.ɐ/ [aɫ.kɐˈtɐj.ɐ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /al.kɐˈtej.ɐ/ [aɫ.kɐˈtej.ɐ]
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /al.kɐˈtej.ɐ/ [aɫ.kɐˈtej.ɐ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /al.kɐˈte.ɐ/ [aɫ.kɐˈte.ɐ]
- Hyphenation: al‧ca‧tei‧a
Verb
alcateia
- inflection of alcatear:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
References
- “alcateia” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “alcateia” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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