colher

colher

From Old Portuguese cullar, collar, from Latin cochlear, cochleāris (“spoon”). The Old Portuguese word was influenced by Old French cuiller (French cuiller / cuillère), from the same Latin root. Cognate with Galician culler, French cuillère, Spanish cuchara, Catalan cullera. Confer with caracol (“snail”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.ˈʎɛɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ku.ˈʎɛʁ/, /ko.ˈʎɛʁ/
• Hyphenation: co‧lher

colher f (plural colheres)

1. spoon (eating utensil)

• colher de sobremesa
• colher de sopa
• colher de café

• Kabuverdianu: kudjer

From Latin colligere, present active infinitive of colligō (“collect, gather”). Cognate to Spanish coger. Compare also the borrowed doublet coligir.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈʎe(ʁ)/, /kuˈʎe(ʁ)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈʎeɾ/

colher (first-person singular present indicative colho, past participle colhido)

1. to harvest, get, reap, gather

• acolher
• colheita
• colheito
• escolher
• recolher