🇵🇹 Portuguese

tela

feminine

a tela

screen

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tela
/a ˈtɛlɐ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say tela in Portuguese?

IPA
/a ˈtɛlɐ/

How do you pronounce tela in Portuguese?

tela is pronounced /a ˈtɛlɐ/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A tela branca estava pendurada na parede da galeria de arte.

The white screen/canvas was hanging on the wall of the art gallery.

Essa tela antiga é muito valiosa porque foi pintada por um artista famoso.

This old screen/canvas is very valuable because it was painted by a famous artist.

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Why is it feminine?

Tela is feminine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin *tēla* (feminine), which originally meant "warp of a loom" or "web," and Latin nouns ending in *-a* were typically feminine, a gender pattern that carried into Romance languages like Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for screen?

The Portuguese word for screen is a tela — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchécran flips!l'masculine
🇪🇸 Spanishpantallalafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianschermo flips!lomasculine

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