fronteira
Meaning
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- (feminine) border (a line or frontier area separating regions)
- (feminine) the region near a border
- (feminine,figuratively) separation
- (feminine,figuratively) limit; boundary
Frequency
Hyphenated as
fron‧tei‧ra
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/fɾõˈte(j).ɾɐ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese fronteira. By surface analysis, fronte + -eira. Compare Galician fronteira, Mirandese frunteira, Spanish and Catalan frontera, French frontière, Italian frontiera. Piecewise doublet of frontaria.
New
fronteiro
- front
- opposite
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