arcabouço

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• arcaboiço

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁ.kaˈbo(w).su/ [ah.kaˈbo(ʊ̯).su]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁ.kaˈbo(w).su/ [ah.kaˈbo(ʊ̯).su]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aɾ.kaˈbo(w).su/ [aɾ.kaˈbo(ʊ̯).su]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aʁ.kaˈbo(w).su/ [aχ.kaˈbo(ʊ̯).su]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aɻ.kaˈbo(w).so/ [aɻ.kaˈbo(ʊ̯).so]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾ.kɐˈbo(w).su/ [ɐɾ.kɐˈβo(w).su]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾ.kɐˈbo(w).su/ [ɐɾ.kɐˈβo(w).su]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾ.kɐˈbow.su/ [ɐɾ.kɐˈβow.su]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾ.kɐˈbo.su/ [ɐɾ.kɐˈβo.su]

• Rhymes: -owsu, -osu
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca‧bou‧ço

Noun

arcabouço m (plural arcabouços)

1. framework
   1. (architecture) arrangement of support beams of a building
   2. (figuratively) a basic physical or conceptual structure