reais
Sayray-YS/ɹeɪˈaɪs/
- 1Plural of real.
The market stall priced the woven basket at eighty reais.
Tourists exchanged their dollars and walked away with a thick wad of reais.
Note
A plural borrowed whole from Portuguese, where a stressed final -al becomes -ais: one real, eighty reais. The form is useful because real also names Spain's former currency and a coin worth one real, and reais points only to Brazil's money. The older Brazilian plural réis belongs to the currency used before 1942, so it appears in historical writing rather than on today's price tags.
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