-açu
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Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Tupi -gûasu.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: -a‧çu
Suffix[edit]
-açu m or f (noun-forming suffix, plural -açus)
- (no longer productive) forms the augmentative of nouns
Usage notes[edit]
Despite most words suffixed with -açu being direct borrowings from Old Tupi, there's a number of them that got suffixed later and have no related term in that language, like minhocuçu.
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “-açu” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “açu” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “açu” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “açu” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Tupi
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/u
- Rhymes:Portuguese/u/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese suffixes
- Portuguese noun-forming suffixes
- Portuguese countable suffixes
- Portuguese masculine suffixes
- Portuguese feminine suffixes
- Portuguese suffixes with multiple genders