fronteira

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === fronteyra (obsolete) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fronteira. By surface analysis, fronte +‎ -eira. Compare Galician fronteira, Mirandese frunteira, Spanish and Catalan frontera, French frontière, Italian frontiera. Piecewise doublet of frontaria. === Pronunciation === Homophone: Fronteira Hyphenation: fron‧tei‧ra === Noun === fronteira f (plural fronteiras) border (a line or frontier area separating regions) the region near a border (figuratively) separation (figuratively) limit; boundary ==== Synonyms ==== (border): limite, divisa, estremadura (region near the border): confim, estremadura (separation): separação, divisão (limit): limite, máximo ==== Derived terms ==== fronteira agrícola fronteira artificial fronteira linguística fronteira termodinâmica fronteira viva ==== Related terms ==== defronte frente fronte fronteiriço fronteiro === Adjective === fronteira feminine singular of fronteiro === Further reading === “fronteira”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “fronteira”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026