pensamento

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese penssamento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from penssar (“to think”) + -mento, from Latin pēnsāre, present active infinitive of pēnsō (“I ponder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pensaˈmentʊ]

Noun

pensamento m (plural pensamentos)

1. a thought; an idea

   Synonym: idea

2. (uncountable) thinking (process by which thoughts arise)
3. ideology (beliefs and principle of a group)

   Synonym: ideoloxía

4. garden pansy

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “penssamento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pensamento”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pensamento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pensamento”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pensamento”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese penssamento, from penssar (“to think”) + -mento, from Latin pēnsāre, present active infinitive of pēnsō (“I ponder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpẽ.sa.ˈmẽ.tu/, /ˌpẽ.sɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/
• IPA^(key): /ˌpẽ.sa.ˈmẽ.to/
• IPA^(key): /pẽ.sɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/
• Hyphenation: pen‧sa‧men‧to

Noun

pensamento m (plural pensamentos)

1. a thought; an idea

   Synonym: ideia

2. (uncountable) thinking (process by which thoughts arise)

   Synonym: reflexão

3. ideology (beliefs and principle of a group)

   Synonym: ideologia

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pensamento.

Related terms

• pensação
• pensado
• pensador
• pensadouro

• pensamentear
• pensante
• pensar
• pensativamente

• pensatividade
• pensativo
• pensável

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: pensaméntu