Polyglot Dictionary

cesta-de-pão

/ˌsestadʒiˈpɐ̃w/

a noun B2

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 cestas-de-pão

Meaning

  1. bread basket

    Built from cesta (basket) + de (of) + pão (bread).

    • Pôs pão na cesta-de-pão.

      He put bread in the bread basket.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Mass Scope Individual

Made of

  • cesta basket
  • de of
  • pão bread

Similar words

Similar in other languages

German

Brotkorb

Brotkorb is the German word for the same thing — both mean "bread basket."

Spanish

panera

panera is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "bread basket."

Practice

1 What does cesta-de-pão mean?

2 Fill the gap: Pôs pão na ___-de-pão.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches cesta-de-pão?

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