ceptro

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛp.tɾu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛp.tɾo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ptɾu/

Hyphenation: cep‧tro

Noun

ceptro m (plural ceptros)

Superseded spelling of cetro. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Usage notes

The word was superseded, but it is still occasionally pronounced with the "p".

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