hieroglífico

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /je.ɾoˈɡli.fi.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /je.ɾoˈɡli.fi.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /je.ɾoˈɡli.fi.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /jɛ.ɾuˈɡli.fi.ku/ [jɛ.ɾuˈɣli.fi.ku]

Adjective

hieroglífico (feminine hieroglífica, masculine plural hieroglíficos, feminine plural hieroglíficas)

1. hieroglyphic

Further reading

• “hieroglífico”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “hieroglífico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French hiéroglyphique, from Latin hieroglyphicus, from Ancient Greek ἱερογλυφικός (hierogluphikós), from ἱερογλυφέω (hierogluphéō, “to represent hieroglyphically”), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred, holy”) + γλύφω (glúphō, “to carve, to engrave, to cut out”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝeɾoˈɡlifiko/ [ɟ͡ʝe.ɾoˈɣ̞li.fi.ko]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝeɾoˈɡlifiko/ [ɟ͡ʝe.ɾoˈɣ̞li.fi.ko]
• IPA^(key): (Argentina and Uruguay) /jeɾoˈɡlifiko/ [je.ɾoˈɣ̞li.fi.ko]

• Rhymes: -ifiko
• Syllabification: hie‧ro‧glí‧fi‧co

Noun

hieroglífico m (plural hieroglíficos)

1. Obsolete form of jeroglífico.