travão

== Portuguese == === Etymology 1 === From trava (“something which restrains or blocks”) +‎ -ão. ==== Pronunciation ==== Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃ Hyphenation: tra‧vão ==== Noun ==== travão m (plural travões) brake (device used to slow or stop a vehicle) Synonym: freio Antonym: acelerador === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== travão obsolete form of travam === Further reading === “travão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “travão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026