caveira

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === caveyra (obsolete) càveira (obsolete outside of pronunciation respellings) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese caaveira, from Vulgar Latin *calavaria, from Latin calvāria (“skull”). Doublet of calvária. Cognate with Galician caveira, Spanish and Catalan calavera. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ejrɐ, (Portugal) -ɐjɾɐ, (j-dropping) -erɐ Hyphenation: ca‧vei‧ra === Noun === caveira f (plural caveiras) (informal) skull Synonym: crânio ==== Derived terms ==== === Noun === caveira m or f by sense (plural caveiras) (Brazil, slang) member of BOPE ==== Derived terms ==== caveirão === Further reading === “caveira” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913 “caveira”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “caveira”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026 “caveira”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 “caveira”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “caveira”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026 “caveira”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN