declinação

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēclīnātiōnem (declension, declination). By surface analysis, declinar + -ção.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.kli.naˈsɐ̃w̃/ [de.kli.naˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨ.kli.nɐˈsɐ̃w̃/

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: de‧cli‧na‧ção

Noun

declinação f (plural declinações)

  1. (grammar) declension (a way of categorizing nouns)
  2. decline, decadence, fall
    Synonyms: queda, decadência, declínio
    Antonym: ascensão
  3. declination, refusal
    Synonym: rejeição
    Antonym: aceitação

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Further reading

  • declinação” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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