certeiro
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /seʁˈte(j).ɾu/ [sehˈte(ɪ̯).ɾu]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /seɾˈte(j).ɾu/ [seɾˈte(ɪ̯).ɾu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /seʁˈte(j).ɾu/ [seχˈte(ɪ̯).ɾu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /seɻˈte(j).ɾo/ [seɻˈte(ɪ̯).ɾo]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨɾˈtɐj.ɾu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨɾˈtej.ɾu/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨɾˈtej.ɾu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨɾˈte.ɾu/
- Hyphenation: cer‧tei‧ro
Adjective
certeiro (feminine certeira, masculine plural certeiros, feminine plural certeiras, comparable)
- well-aimed (of a shot, blow etc.)
- 1883, Teófilo Braga, “A bixa de sete cabeças”, in Contos Tradicionaes do Povo Portuguez:
- Como elle já esperava isto, descarregou um golpe certeiro e matou o monstro, mas sempre uma gota de sangue espirrou e foi bater na cara da princeza que estava adormecida.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (by extension, figurative) accurate; to the point
- Synonym: exato
- (by extension, figurative) clever
- Synonym: perspicaz
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