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molho.

sauce (liquid condiment placed on food)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmo.ʎu/Brazil/ˈmo.ʎu/Portugal
  1. sauce (liquid condiment placed on food)

    masculine
  2. sauce, vitality, charm, style

    Brazil · masculine · slang
Where this word comes from

Deverbal from molhar (“to wet; to water”), from Old Galician-Portuguese mollar, from Vulgar Latin *molliāre (“to soak”), from Latin mollis (“soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dus (“soft, weak”).

noun/ˈmo.ʎu/Brazil/ˈmɔ.ʎu/Brazil/ˈmo.ʎu/Portugal/ˈmɔ.ʎu/Portugal
  1. bundle (group of objects held together by wrapping or tying, especially keys or vegetables)

    collective · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese mãollo, from Late Latin manuc(u)lus, modified ultimately from manipulus (“maniple; handful”), from manus (“hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *man-. Doublet of manolho and manojo. Compare Spanish manojo.

verb/ˈmɔ.ʎu/Brazil/ˈmɔ.ʎu/Portugal
  1. first-person singular present indicative of molhar

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
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