mordaz
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin mordācem (“biting”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mor‧daz
Adjective
[edit]mordaz m or f (plural mordazes)
- mordacious (sharp or caustic in style or tone)
- Synonym: incisivo
Related terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin mordācis (“biting”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /moɾˈdaθ/ [moɾˈð̞aθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /moɾˈdas/ [moɾˈð̞as]
- Rhymes: -aθ
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: mor‧daz
Adjective
[edit]mordaz m or f (masculine and feminine plural mordaces)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mordaz”, 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
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aθ
- Rhymes:Spanish/aθ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/as
- Rhymes:Spanish/as/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
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