"anta" meaning in Portuguese

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɐ̃.tɐ/ Audio: pt-br-anta.ogg Forms: antas [plural]
Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ Etymology: From Old Galician-Portuguese anta, borrowed from Latin antās pl. Etymology templates: {{inh|pt|roa-opt|anta}} Old Galician-Portuguese anta, {{der|pt|la|antae|antās|g=p}} Latin antās pl Head templates: {{pt-noun|f}} anta f (plural antas)
  1. (architecture) anta Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-anta-pt-noun-FmERPE8j Categories (other): Architecture Topics: architecture
  2. (archaeology) dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb) Tags: feminine Synonyms: dólmen
    Sense id: en-anta-pt-noun-dIi2BdHt Categories (other): Archaeology, Mammals Disambiguation of Mammals: 2 13 38 46 Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Anta, Antas, Antela, antela, Antelas
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈɐ̃.tɐ/ Audio: pt-br-anta.ogg Forms: antas [plural]
Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ Etymology: From Arabic لَمْتَة (lamta). Etymology templates: {{bor|pt|ar|لَمْتَة}} Arabic لَمْتَة (lamta) Head templates: {{pt-noun|f}} anta f (plural antas)
  1. tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae) Tags: feminine Synonyms: tapir
    Sense id: en-anta-pt-noun-usXgS73X Categories (other): Pages with 20 entries, Pages with entries, Mammals Disambiguation of Pages with 20 entries: 2 1 1 2 4 1 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 5 1 5 11 13 4 12 1 2 2 2 7 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 1 0 1 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 1 5 13 15 5 13 1 1 1 1 9 8 Disambiguation of Mammals: 2 13 38 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /ˈɐ̃.tɐ/ Audio: pt-br-anta.ogg Forms: antas [plural]
Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ Etymology: From Arabic لَمْتَة (lamta). Etymology templates: {{bor|pt|ar|لَمْتَة}} Arabic لَمْتَة (lamta) Head templates: {{pt-noun|mfbysense}} anta m or f by sense (plural antas)
  1. (Brazil, figuratively) a stupid person Tags: Brazil, by-personal-gender, feminine, figuratively, masculine
    Sense id: en-anta-pt-noun-1x9B0h4j Categories (other): Brazilian Portuguese, Pages with 20 entries, Pages with entries, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header, Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense, Portuguese nouns with irregular gender, Mammals Disambiguation of Pages with 20 entries: 2 1 1 2 4 1 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 5 1 5 11 13 4 12 1 2 2 2 7 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 1 0 1 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 1 5 13 15 5 13 1 1 1 1 9 8 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 8 12 29 51 Disambiguation of Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense: 12 16 13 59 Disambiguation of Portuguese nouns with irregular gender: 9 18 16 57 Disambiguation of Mammals: 2 13 38 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Portuguese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-20 using wiktextract (074e7de 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.