carpideira

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From carpir (“to mourn”) + -deira. Compare Spanish plañidera. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: car‧pi‧dei‧ra === Noun === carpideira f (plural carpideiras) (historical) a professional mourner, a moirologist (a woman paid to grieve at a funeral) === Further reading === “carpideira”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “carpideira”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026