Polyglot Dictionary

água-viva

/ˌaɡwɐˈvivɐ/

a noun B1

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
as águas-vivas

Meaning

  1. jellyfish

    Built from água (water) + viva (alive).

    • Uma água-viva me picou.

      A jellyfish stung me.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • água water
  • viva alive

Similar words

medusa

água-viva is more common in Brazilian Portuguese; medusa is more scientific or European Portuguese — both mean "jellyfish."

Similar in other languages

German

Qualle

Qualle is the German word for the same thing — both mean "jellyfish."

Spanish

medusa

medusa is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "jellyfish."

French

méduse

méduse is the French word for the same thing — both mean "jellyfish."

Practice

1 What does água-viva mean?

2 Fill the gap: Uma ___-viva me picou.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches água-viva?

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