usina

• Homophones: usinas, usinât

usina

1. third-person singular past historic of usiner

• Hyphenation: u‧si‧na

Borrowed from French usine (“factory; works”). Doublet of oficina.

• uzina (obsolete)

usina f (plural usinas)

1. (Brazil) plant (factory or industrial facility), especially a large one
2. (Brazil) sugar mill (factory that produces sugar)
3. (Brazil) power plant (industrial complex where electricity is produced)

• (factory): engenho, fábrica, indústria
• (sugar mill): engenho, engenho de açúcar
• (power plant): central elétrica (Portugal)

• usinado
• usinagem
• usinar
• usineiro

usina

1. inflection of usinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French usine (“factory; works”). Doublet of oficina.

• IPA^(key): /uˈsina/ [uˈsi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: u‧si‧na

usina f (plural usinas)

1. plant (factory or industrial facility), especially a large one

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