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feto.

fetus (human embryo after the eighth week of gestation)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈfɛ.tu/Brazil/ˈfɛ.tu/Portugal
  1. fetus (human embryo after the eighth week of gestation)

    masculine
  2. fetus (unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tus Proto-Italic *fētus Latin fētuslbor. Portuguese feto Learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”).

noun/ˈfɛ.tu/Brazil/ˈfɛ.tu/Portugal
  1. fern (any of a group of plants in the division Pteridophyta)

    Portugal · masculine
Where this word comes from

From earlier fento, from Old Galician-Portuguese *feeyto, from Latin filictum (“place abounding in ferns”), from filix, filicem (“fern”). Cognate with Galician fento, fieito and Spanish helecho.

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