alicate

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَقَّاط (laqqāṭ), via Andalusian Arabic.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.liˈka.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.liˈka.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.liˈka.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.liˈka.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: a‧li‧ca‧te

Noun

alicate m (plural alicates)

1. pliers (gripping tool)

Derived terms

• alicatezão (augmentative), alicatão (Brazil, augmentative)
• alicatezinho (diminutive), alicatinho (Brazil, diminutive)
• alicatear

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aliˈkate/ [a.liˈka.t̪e]

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• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: a‧li‧ca‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic لَقَّاط (laqqāṭ), via Andalusian Arabic.

Noun

alicate m (plural alicates)

1. pliers
2. combination pliers (UK, US), lineman's pliers (US), Kleins (US), linesman pliers (Canada), side-cutting pliers

   Synonym: alicates universales

3. (Argentina) nail clippers

Usage notes

• Often used in the plural form with the same meaning.

Derived terms

• alicates de corte
• alicates de terminales
• alicates extensibles
• alicates universales

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: alikate

Etymology 2

Verb

alicate

1. inflection of alicatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “alicate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10