facção

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin factiōnem. Compare the inherited doublet feição (aspect, feature).

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Brazil):(file)
  • Hyphenation: fac‧ção

Noun

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facção f (plural facções) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling, superseded in European Portuguese)

  1. faction (group of people)
    Synonyms: grupo, conjunto
  2. (politics) a subdivision of a political party
  3. (religion) sect
    Synonym: seita
  4. Clipping of facção criminosa.

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