adoleta

Portuguese

Etymology

From French andouillette.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.doˈle.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.doˈle.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.doˈle.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.duˈle.tɐ/ [ɐ.ðuˈle.tɐ]

• Rhymes: -etɐ

Noun

adoleta f (uncountable)

1. (games) a children's game similar to pattycake in which two people alternately clap their own and each other's hands, often to the accompaniment of the nursery rhyme "Adoleta"

Further reading

• adoleta on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “adoleta”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024