raposa
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Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See raposo. Compare Portuguese raposa, Spanish raposa.
Noun[edit]
raposa f (plural raposas)
- vixen (animal)
Related terms[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish raposa (“fox”), probably from rabo (“tail”), from Latin rāpum (“turnip”) + -ōsus, and influenced by descendants of rapiō (“snatch, grab”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: ra‧po‧sa
Noun[edit]
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) oposum (any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae)
- (usually derogatory) fox (a sly or cunning person)
Usage notes[edit]
Raposa is one of the few feminines that are used by default (when the referent’s sex is unknown or irrelevant).
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “raposa” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “raposa” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See raposo.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
raposa f (plural raposas)
Further reading[edit]
- “raposo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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