macau

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === macao (pre-standardization spelling) === Etymology === Unknown. Displaced by arara, from Old Tupi. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -aw Homophone: Macau Hyphenation: ma‧cau === Noun === macau m (plural macaus) (obsolete, Early Modern, dis legomenon) macaw [16th–17th c.] Synonyms: arara, ará ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: macaw → Italian: macao → Translingual: Ara macao === Further reading === “macau”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “macau”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “macau”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 “macau”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN