chapéu

See also: chapèu

Portuguese

Chapéu

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chapel, from Vulgar Latin *cappellus, from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of capelo.

Compare Galician chapeu, Spanish chapeo, chapeau, Catalan capell, Occitan capèl, French chapeau, and Italian cappello (the Galician and Spanish also being borrowings from French).

Pronunciation

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ.ˈpɛw/
(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃa.ˈpɛw/
Hyphenation: cha‧péu
Rhymes: -ɛw

Noun

chapéu m (plural chapéus)

hat (head covering)
(informal) circumflex accent (the diacritic mark ^)

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:chapéu.

Synonyms

(circumflex accent): acento circunflexo, circunflexo

Descendants

Ladino: chapeo
Swahili: chepeo

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