picape

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pickup, pick-up

Etymology

Borrowed from English pickup, short for pick up truck.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈka.pi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈka.pi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈka.pe/

• Rhymes: -api
• Hyphenation: pi‧ca‧pe

Noun

picape f (plural picapes)

1. (Brazil) pickup truck (truck with an open cargo bed)

   Synonyms: carrinha de caixa aberta, (Brazil) caminhonete

Further reading

• picape on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “picape”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “picape”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025