contramedida

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.tɾa.meˈd͡ʒi.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.tɾa.meˈd͡ʒi.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.tɾa.meˈd͡ʒi.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõ.tɾɐ.mɨˈdi.dɐ/ [kõ.tɾɐ.mɨˈði.ðɐ]

• Hyphenation: con‧tra‧me‧di‧da

Noun

contramedida f (plural contramedidas)

1. countermeasure (any action taken to counteract or correct another)

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From contra- +‎ medida.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkontɾameˈdida/ [ˌkõn̪.t̪ɾa.meˈð̞i.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ida
• Syllabification: con‧tra‧me‧di‧da

Noun

contramedida f (plural contramedidas)

1. countermeasure

Further reading

• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “contramedida”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]