construtor

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *ster-

Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *strew-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *stréweti

Proto-Italic *strowō

Latin struō

Latin cōnstruere

Late Latin cōnstrūctōrem

Portuguese construtor

Inherited from Late Latin cōnstrūctōrem (“builder”), from Latin cōnstruere (“to build, pile together”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõs.tɾuˈtoʁ/ [kõs.tɾuˈtoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõs.tɾuˈtoʁ/ [kõs.tɾuˈtoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kõs.tɾuˈtoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kõʃ.tɾuˈtoʁ/ [kõʃ.tɾuˈtoχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /kõs.tɾuˈtoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõʃ.tɾuˈtoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõʃ.tɾuˈtoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõʃ.tɾuˈto.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: cons‧tru‧tor

Adjective

construtor (feminine construtora, masculine plural construtores, feminine plural construtoras, not comparable)

1. (relational) construction

Noun

construtor m (plural construtores, feminine construtora, feminine plural construtoras)

1. builder, constructor

Further reading

• “construtor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “construtor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026