arame
Meaning
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- (masculine) wire
- (archaic,masculine) alloy of copper, usually bronze or brass
- (broadly,masculine) tableware
- (broadly,colloquial,figuratively,masculine) money
- (masculine) tightrope
- (broadly,masculine) balance pole (balancing tool for tightrope walking)
- (Brazil,colloquial,masculine) straight razor
- (Brazil,colloquial,masculine) frizzy hair
Frequency
Hyphenated as
a‧ra‧me
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aˈɾɐ̃.mi/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *aramen, variant of Late Latin aerāmen (“copper, bronze”), from Latin aes. Compare Galician arame, Spanish alambre.
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