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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Cru

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kɾu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Raw/rɔː/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ela prefere comer vegetais crus por seus benefícios nutricionais."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    In its natural state; not processed or cooked.

    "She prefers to eat raw vegetables for their nutritional benefits."
As noun
  1. 1

    Material in its natural, unprocessed state.

    "The factory received a shipment of raw materials for production."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'hrēaw', meaning uncooked or unprocessed, originating from Proto-Germanic '*hrawwaz'. Over centuries, the semantic scope expanded from physical states of matter and food to metaphorically describe natural, unrefined, and deeply exposed human emotional conditions.

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