Polyglot Dictionary

encosta

/ẽˈkɔstɐ/

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 encostas

Meaning

  1. slope

    • A casa fica na encosta.

      The house is on the slope.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

declive

encosta means a hillside or mountainside slope, a large geographic feature; declive is a more general slope or downward incline.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

vertiente

vertiente is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "slope."

French

pente

pente is the French word for the same thing — both mean "slope."

Practice

1 What does encosta mean?

2 Fill the gap: A casa fica na ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches encosta?

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