paquete
See also: paqueté
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐˈke.t(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: pa‧que‧te
Noun
paquete m (plural paquetes)
- a large steamboat
- a small cargo and/or messenger sailing ship
- (by extension) referring to different types of boats
- (figuratively) an errand boy
- (Brazil, vulgar) menstruation
Adjective
paquete m or f (plural paquetes)
- (Brazil) well-dressed
Spanish
Etymology
From French paquet.
Noun
paquete m (plural paquetes)
- parcel
- Synonym: (Latin America) encomienda
- package
- (colloquial, Spain) chump, useless, butterfingers (an incompetent person)
- Synonyms: manco, zoquete, zopenco, manazas
- (colloquial, Spain) lunchbox (male genitals enclosed in clothing)
- (colloquial) scrotum, package
Derived terms
- de paquete
- empaquetar
Related terms
- empacar
- bulto
Further reading
- “paquete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014