🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

sacada

Pronunciation / Transliteration: saˈka.dɐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Oriel/ˈɔːr.i.əl/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A bela sacada projeta-se sobre a rua principal."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A projecting bay window that is supported by corbels or brackets rather than extending down to the ground.

    "The medieval library featured a magnificent stained-glass oriel overlooking the courtyard."
  2. 2

    Historically, a small upper-story room, chamber, or gallery.

    "She sat quietly in the small oriel, reading her book in the afternoon sunlight."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Anglo-French 'oriol', Old French 'oriol', and Medieval Latin 'oriolum', possibly meaning a gallery, portico, or porch, with ultimate roots likely in Late Latin 'aureolum' (adorned with gold or gilded). Over the centuries in Middle English, the term shifted from denoting a recess or small room to specifically describing a projecting upper-story window.

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