encruzilhada

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From encruzilhar (“to cross”), from cruz (“cross”), from Old Galician-Portuguese cruz, from Latin crux (“cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: en‧cru‧zi‧lha‧da === Noun === encruzilhada f (plural encruzilhadas) crossroads (intersection) Synonyms: ambívio, cruzamento, interseção (figuratively) a difficult situation ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “encruzilhada”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “encruzilhada”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026