atrito

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === attrito (pre-standardization spelling) === Etymology 1 === Learned borrowing from Latin attrītus (“rubbed”), perfect passive participle of atterō (“to rub”). ==== Pronunciation ==== Hyphenation: a‧tri‧to ==== Noun ==== atrito m (countable and uncountable, plural atritos) (physics, uncountable) friction (force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact) (figurative) friction (conflict between people having dissimilar ideas or interests) === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== atrito first-person singular present indicative of atritar === Further reading === “atrito”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “atrito”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026