raposa
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Etymology
See raposo. Compare Portuguese raposa, Spanish raposa.
Noun
raposa f (plural raposas)
- vixen (animal)
Related terms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish raposa (“fox”), probably from rabo (“tail”), from Latin rāpum (“turnip”) + -ōsus, and influenced by descendants of rapiō (“snatch, grab”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ra‧po‧sa
Noun
raposa f (plural raposas)
- fox (both the "true foxes" of the Old World and North America, and the "false foxes" of Latin America)
- 2015, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Príncipe, Pelekanos Books, →ISBN:
- – Os homens, disse a raposa, têm fuzis e caçam. É bem incômodo!
- “The men”, said the fox, “have rifles and they hunt. It’s quite bothersome!”
- (specifically) vixen (female fox)
- (Brazil, regional) opossum (any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae)
- (usually derogatory) fox (a sly or cunning person)
Usage notes
Raposa is one of the few feminines that are used by default (when the referent’s sex is unknown or irrelevant).
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “raposa”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “raposa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Etymology
See raposo.
Pronunciation
Noun
raposa f (plural raposas)
Further reading
- “raposo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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