bisteca

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• bisteque

Etymology

PIE word
*gʷṓws

Borrowed from English beefsteak. Cognate with Spanish bistec and French bifteck.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bisˈtɛ.kɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bisˈtɛ.kɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /biʃˈtɛ.kɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /bisˈtɛ.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /biʃˈtɛ.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
• Hyphenation: bis‧te‧ca

Noun

bisteca f (plural bistecas)

1. (Brazil, cooking) beefsteak (steak).

Related terms

• bife
• boi

Further reading

• “bisteca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “bisteca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romagnol

Noun

bisteca f (plural bistec)

1. steak

References

• Ponseggi, Franco (2016), Lèžar e scrìvar in Rumagnôl [Write and read in the Romagnol language] (in Italian), Rome: Youcanprint Self-Publishing, page 27