estilhaço

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) splinter
2. (masculine) shard
3. (especially, in-plural, masculine) shrapnel

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of estilhaçar

estilhaçar

1. (transitive) to shatter (to violently break something into pieces)
2. (intransitive) to shatter (to break into tiny pieces)

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Concepts

shrapnel

shard

splinter

sliver

shatter

loose change

fragment

Synonyms

schrapnell

lasca

Translations

Splitter

Schrapnell

metralla

Granatsplitter

shrapnel

metralla

θραύσμα

Scherbe

şarapnel

tesson

fragment

Fragment

bombe à fragmentation

éclat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/is.t͡ʃiˈʎa.su/

Etymology

From estilha (“splinter, fragment”) + -aço.