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bravo

Pronunciation: /ˈbɾa.vu/

“bravo” is a Portuguese word. Its 14 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. angry; furious, annoyed
  2. brave; valiant, courageous
  3. coarse; uneducated, uncivilized
  4. prone to irritation, easily angered, bad-tempered, choleric
  5. rigorous, authoritarian
  6. difficult, unmanageable (of a person or situation)
  7. undomesticated (of an animal)
  8. spontaneous, weed (of a plant or vegetable)
  9. uncultivated (of the land)
  10. stormy (of the sea)
  11. a term akin to English dope, hard; meaning cool or good, usually with an aggressive connotation

noun

  1. a certain part of an oxcart
  2. a neophyte to rubber tapping, a novice seringueiro

interjection

  1. bravo! well done!

In Portuguese

  1. que não exibe medo
  2. que demonstra bravura
  3. bravio, silvestre
  4. que demonstra raiva, que se enraivece facilmente
  5. irritado, nervoso
  6. intenso
  7. bom, valoroso, importante (geralmente usado como ironia)
  8. demonstra aprovação ou admiração
  9. brado elogioso
  10. rebento de planta ou árvore, nascido do seu caule ou tronco

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bravo, possibly from Vulgar Latin *bravus or *brabus, from a fusion of Latin prāvus and barbarus.

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