acidente

Meaning

  1. (masculine) accident (unexpected event with negative consequences)
  2. (masculine) accident (irregular surface)

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
a‧ci‧den‧te
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/a.siˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/
Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin accidentem, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”); respectively from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”) and *ḱad- (“to fall”).

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