carne

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Meaning

  1. (feminine,uncountable) flesh
  2. (feminine) meat
  3. (feminine) pulp; flesh (edible part of fruit/vegetable)
  4. (Brazil,feminine,informal) beef

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
car‧ne
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkaʁ.ni/
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese carne, from Latin carnem (“meat”), from Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”). Compare Catalan carn, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian carne.

Cognate with Catalan
Catalan
carn

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