remendo

See also: remendó

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

  • 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

Etymology 2

Verb

remendo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of remendar