remendo

See also: remendó

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈmẽ.du/ [heˈmẽ.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈmẽ.du/ [heˈmẽ.du]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈmẽ.du/ [χeˈmẽ.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈmẽ.do/ [heˈmẽ.do]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈmẽ.du/

• Hyphenation: re‧men‧do

Etymology 1

Deverbal from remendar (“to mend”), from re- + emendar (“to attach; to amend”), from Old Galician-Portuguese emendar, from Latin ēmendāre (“to amend”).

Noun

remendo m (plural remendos)

1. patch (piece of cloth used to repair something)

   Synonym: retalho

2. (figurative) patch (a repair intended to be used for a limited time)

   Synonym: gambiarra

Related terms

• remendadamente
• remendado
• remendador
• remendagem
• remendão
• remendar
• remendaria
• remendável
• remendeiro
• remendição
• remendona

Etymology 2

Verb

remendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of remendar

Further reading

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