trecho

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trecho, from tractus. Doublet of tracto, which was a borrowing.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ʃu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ʃo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɐ(j).ʃu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.t͡ʃu/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ʃu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾe.ʃu/

Hyphenation: tre‧cho

Noun

trecho m (plural trechos)

excerpt; passage; snippet (small extract from a larger work)
Synonyms: passagem, excerto

Ele citou um trecho da Bíblia.
He quoted a passage from the Bible.
stretch (a section of a road, route, trip or period)

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɾet͡ʃo/ [ˈt̪ɾe.t͡ʃo]
Rhymes: -etʃo
Syllabification: tre‧cho

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tractus. Doublet of tracto, which was a borrowing.

Noun

trecho m (plural trechos)

distance, stretch, extension (in space or time)
Synonym: tramo
way, trail, walk
Synonyms: vía, paseo

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

trecho

first-person singular present indicative of trechar

Further reading

“trecho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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