raquítico

Portuguese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁaˈki.t͡ʃi.ku/ [haˈki.t͡ʃi.ku]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁaˈki.t͡ʃi.ku/ [haˈki.t͡ʃi.ku]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁaˈki.t͡ʃi.ku/ [χaˈki.t͡ʃi.ku]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁaˈki.t͡ʃi.ko/ [haˈki.t͡ʃi.ko]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɐˈki.ti.ku/

• Rhymes: -it͡ʃiku, -itiku
• Hyphenation: ra‧quí‧ti‧co

Adjective

raquítico (feminine raquítica, masculine plural raquíticos, feminine plural raquíticas)

1. (medicine) rickety (who suffers from rickets)
2. (medicine) rickety (relating to rickets)
3. frail, stunted
4. (botany) little developed
5. (figuratively) petty

Noun

raquítico m (plural raquíticos, feminine raquítica, feminine plural raquíticas)

1. (medicine) a rickety person
2. a frail or stunted person

Further reading

• “raquítico”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “raquítico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Adjective

raquítico (feminine raquítica, masculine plural raquíticos, feminine plural raquíticas)

1. (medicine) rachitic
2. small, measly
3. squalid, stunted

Further reading

• “raquítico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10