🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

ligamento

Pronunciation / Transliteration: liɡaˈmẽtu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ligament/ˈlɪɡəmənt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ele rompeu um ligamento do joelho."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A short band of tough, flexible, fibrous connective tissue which connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint.

    "She tore a ligament in her knee during the football match."

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from Latin ligamentum, from ligare 'to bind'.

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