chapéu
See also: chapèu
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French chapel, from Vulgar Latin *cappellus, from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of capelo.
Compare Galician chapeu, Spanish chapeo, chapeau, Catalan capell, Occitan capèl, French chapeau, and Italian cappello (the Galician and Spanish also being borrowings from French).
Pronunciation
Noun
chapéu m (plural chapéus)
- hat (head covering)
- (informal) circumflex accent (the diacritic mark ^)
Quotations
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:chapéu.
Synonyms
- (circumflex accent): acento circunflexo, circunflexo
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