Polyglot Dictionary

presídio

/pɾeˈzidʒju/

o 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
os presídios

Meaning

  1. prison

    • Fugiu do presídio.

      He escaped from the prison.

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

prisão

presídio specifically means a penitentiary or high-security prison; prisão is more general, any prison, or can also mean "arrest" itself.

Similar in other languages

German

Gefängnis

Gefängnis is the German word for the same thing — both mean "prison."

Spanish

cárcel

cárcel is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "prison."

Spanish

presidio

presidio is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "prison."

Practice

1 What does presídio mean?

2 Fill the gap: Fugiu do ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches presídio?

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