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horta.

kitchen garden, vegetable garden (garden for growing fruit, vegetables and/or herbs)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɔʁ.tɐ/Brazil[ˈɔh.tɐ]Brazil/ˈɔɾ.tɐ/São-Paulo/ˈɔʁ.tɐ/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. kitchen garden, vegetable garden (garden for growing fruit, vegetables and/or herbs)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese orta, from orto, from Latin hortus (“garden”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”), from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”).

verb/ˈɔʁ.tɐ/Brazil[ˈɔh.tɐ]Brazil/ˈɔɾ.tɐ/São-Paulo/ˈɔʁ.tɐ/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. inflection of hortar: third-person singular present indicative

    form-of · indicative · present · singular · third-person
  2. inflection of hortar: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
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