contraforte

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: con‧tra‧for‧te === Noun === contraforte m (plural contrafortes) (architecture) buttress (brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it) Synonym: botaréu buttress (feature jutting out from mountain) buttress (anything that serves to support something else) === Further reading === “contraforte”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “contraforte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026