ocelote

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.seˈlɔ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.seˈlɔ.te/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.sɨˈlɔ.tɨ/

Hyphenation: o‧ce‧lo‧te

Noun

ocelote m (plural ocelotes)

ocelot (Felis pardalis, a feline of the Americas)
Synonyms: gato-do-mato, (Brazil) jaguatirica

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl ōcēlōtl (“jaguar”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /oθeˈlote/ [o.θeˈlo.t̪e]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /oseˈlote/ [o.seˈlo.t̪e]
Rhymes: -ote
Syllabification: o‧ce‧lo‧te

Noun

ocelote m (plural ocelotes)

ocelot

Further reading

“ocelote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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