🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

pisar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pee-zar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Tread/trɛd/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2150 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Você deve pisar com cuidado no chão escorregadio."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To walk, set one's foot, or step on or along something.

    "He had to tread carefully on the icy pathway."
As noun
  1. 1

    The top surface of a step on a stair, or the patterned part of a pneumatic tire that makes contact with the road.

    "The car tires have very little tread left and need to be replaced."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'treden', from Old English 'tredan', of Germanic origin; related to Old High German 'tretan' and Dutch 'treden'. The root originally meant to walk or step on something, evolving to describe the repetitive movement of feet or the patterned surface of a tire.

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