nação

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Portuguese[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese naçon, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin nātiōnem, from Proto-Italic *gnātiō (family).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: na‧ção

Noun[edit]

nação f (plural nações)

  1. nation (group of people sharing aspects of language, culture and/or ethnicity)
  2. nation (country)

Related terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

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