resistência

See also: resistencia and resistència

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• resistencia (obsolete)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin resistentia.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.zisˈtẽ.si.ɐ/ [he.zisˈtẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ʁe.zisˈtẽ.sjɐ/ [he.zisˈtẽ.sjɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.zisˈtẽ.si.ɐ/ [he.zisˈtẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ʁe.zisˈtẽ.sjɐ/ [he.zisˈtẽ.sjɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.ziʃˈtẽ.si.ɐ/ [χe.ziʃˈtẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ʁe.ziʃˈtẽ.sjɐ/ [χe.ziʃˈtẽ.sjɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.zisˈtẽ.si.a/ [he.zisˈtẽ.sɪ.a], (faster pronunciation) /ʁe.zisˈtẽ.sja/ [he.zisˈtẽ.sja]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.ziʃˈtẽ.sjɐ/, /ʁɨ.zɨʃˈtẽ.sjɐ/

• Hyphenation: re‧sis‧tên‧ci‧a

Noun

resistência f (plural resistências)

1. resistance (act of resisting)
2. (physics) resistance
3. (physics) electrical resistance

Related terms

• resistente
• resistir

Further reading

• “resistência”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024