veado

== Portuguese == === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese veado / vẽado, from Latin vēnātus, from vēnor (“to hunt”). ==== Pronunciation ==== Rhymes: -adu Homophone: viado (Brazil, one pronunciation) Hyphenation: ve‧a‧do ==== Noun ==== veado m (plural veados) deer (animal) Synonym: cervo ===== Usage notes ===== Many Brazilian speakers do not pronounce the ⟨e⟩ in this word as /i/, though it would otherwise be expected. This is potentially to prevent confusion with viado, an offensive term which may derive from a pronunciation spelling of veado. ===== Related terms ===== veação === Etymology 2 === Possibly from etymology 1. See viado. ==== Pronunciation ==== Rhymes: -adu Hyphenation: ve‧a‧do ==== Noun ==== veado m (plural veados) alternative spelling of viado (“homosexual man”) Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bicha === Further reading === “veado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “veado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026