jantar

Meaning

Noun

dinner (evening meal)

Verb

to dine

Hyphenated as

jan‧tar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʒɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese jantar, jentar (“lunch, to have lunch”), from Vulgar Latin *iantāre (“to eat lunch”), from Latin ientāre (“to breakfast”). See iēntāculum (“the first meal of the day”).

Sentences

A noite do jantar , a lua cheia deve ser .

The night of dinner, the full moon must be.