cotovelo

Portuguese

O cotovelo de um homem - A man's elbow

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin cubitum (“elbow”) through Old Galician-Portuguese *covetelo, either from Latin cubitālis (via Mozarabic qubtal)[1] or alternatively from Latin cubitellum.[2] Cognate with Galician cotobelo. Cf. also the related coto and côvado.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.toˈve.lu/, /ku.tuˈve.lu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.toˈve.lo/, /ku.tuˈve.lo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.tuˈve.lu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.tuˈbe.lu/ [ku.tuˈβe.lu]

Rhymes: -elu
Hyphenation: co‧to‧ve‧lo

Noun

cotovelo m (plural cotovelos)

(anatomy) elbow

Descendants

Spanish: cotobelo

References

“cotovelo” in iDicionário Aulete.
“cotovelo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Verb

cotovelo

first-person singular present indicative of cotovelar

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