peito

Meaning

  1. (masculine) chest
  2. (masculine) breast
  3. (Brazil,masculine) breaststroke

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
pei‧to
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpej.tu/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peito, from Latin pectus (“chest, breast”), from Proto-Italic *pektos, from Proto-Indo-European *peg- (“breast”).

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