tesouro

tesouro
Meaning

  1. (masculine) treasure (collection of valuable things)
  2. (masculine) Treasury (department responsible for management of public revenue)
  3. (masculine) treasure (any single thing that one values greatly)
  4. (masculine) treasure (a term of endearment)
  5. (masculine) a reference work where terms are grouped together according to their subject

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
te‧sou‧ro
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/teˈzo(w).ɾu/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tesouro, from Latin thēsaurus (“treasure; hoard”), from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse; treasure”). Doublet of the borrowing tesauro.

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