chapéu

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Meaning

  1. (masculine) hat (head covering)
  2. (masculine,regional) umbrella
  3. (masculine,regional) parasol
  4. (informal,masculine) circumflex accent (the diacritic mark ^)
  5. (Portugal,masculine) chip (a goal by passing the ball over the keeper)

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
cha‧péu
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃaˈpɛw/
Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chapel, from Early Medieval Latin cappellus, from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of capelo. Compare Galician chapeu, Spanish chapeo, chapeau, Catalan capell, Occitan capèl, French chapeau, and Italian cappello (the Galician and Spanish also being borrowings from French).

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