prefeito
Meaning
- (masculine) prefect
- (Brazil,masculine) mayor
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pre‧fei‧to
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɾeˈfej.tu/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese prefeito, a borrowing from Latin praefectus (“overseer, director, prefect”).
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