cutelo

Meaning

  1. (masculine) cleaver (heavy square knife used by butchers)
  2. (masculine) brick knife
  3. (masculine) each of the prismatic pieces on whose edges the oscillatory movements of the scales are carried out
  4. (in-plural,masculine) feathers on the tip of the falcon's wings
  5. (in-plural,masculine) auxiliary sails that are set in the extension of the round sails

Frequency

34k
Hyphenated as
cu‧te‧lo
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kuˈtɛ.lu/
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cuitelo, coitelo (“knife”), from Latin cultellus (“small knife”).

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