See -elo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "roa-opt",
"3": "-elo"
},
"expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese -elo",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "la",
"3": "-ellus"
},
"expansion": "Latin -ellus",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "-ilho"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of -ilho",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Galician-Portuguese -elo, from Latin -ellus, -ellum. Doublet of -ilho.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-elos",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-ela",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "-elas",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-ello",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"f": "+"
},
"expansion": "-elo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -elos, feminine -ela, feminine plural -elas)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "58 42",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "cobra (“snake”) + -elo → cobrelo (“snakeling”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "castro (“fort or walled village”) + -elo → castrelo (“small fort or walled village”)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"forms diminutives; -ling; -let"
],
"id": "en--elo-pt-suffix-5S8bMhQx",
"links": [
[
"-ling",
"-ling"
],
[
"-let",
"-let"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "-inho"
},
{
"word": "-ito"
},
{
"word": "-im"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "pesado (“heavy”) + -elo → pesadelo (“nightmare”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "pardo (“dun”) + -elo → pardelo (“sparrow”)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"forms names of things that share a characteristic with the suffixed word, usually carrying a diminutive aspect"
],
"id": "en--elo-pt-suffix--TX-s97C",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "-inho"
},
{
"word": "-ilho"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɛ.lu/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈe.lu/"
}
],
"word": "-elo"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages using catfix",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Portuguese 2-syllable words",
"Portuguese countable suffixes",
"Portuguese doublets",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese masculine suffixes",
"Portuguese noun-forming suffixes",
"Portuguese suffixes",
"Portuguese suffixes with red links in their headword lines",
"Portuguese terms derived from Latin",
"Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese",
"Portuguese terms inherited from Latin",
"Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese",
"Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "roa-opt",
"3": "-elo"
},
"expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese -elo",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "la",
"3": "-ellus"
},
"expansion": "Latin -ellus",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "-ilho"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of -ilho",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Galician-Portuguese -elo, from Latin -ellus, -ellum. Doublet of -ilho.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-elos",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-ela",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "-elas",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-ello",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"f": "+"
},
"expansion": "-elo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -elos, feminine -ela, feminine plural -elas)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "cobra (“snake”) + -elo → cobrelo (“snakeling”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "castro (“fort or walled village”) + -elo → castrelo (“small fort or walled village”)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"forms diminutives; -ling; -let"
],
"links": [
[
"-ling",
"-ling"
],
[
"-let",
"-let"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "-inho"
},
{
"word": "-ito"
},
{
"word": "-im"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "pesado (“heavy”) + -elo → pesadelo (“nightmare”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "pardo (“dun”) + -elo → pardelo (“sparrow”)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"forms names of things that share a characteristic with the suffixed word, usually carrying a diminutive aspect"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "-inho"
},
{
"word": "-ilho"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɛ.lu/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈe.lu/"
}
],
"word": "-elo"
}
Download raw JSONL data for -elo meaning in Portuguese (2.3kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: noun-forming suffix",
"path": [
"-elo"
],
"section": "Portuguese",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-elo",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Portuguese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.