Assunção

See also: assunção

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.sũˈsɐ̃w̃/ [a.sũˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.sũˈsɐ̃w̃/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: As‧sun‧ção
• Homophone: assunção

Etymology 1

From assunção.

Proper noun

Assunção f

1. (Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) Assumption (the ascent of the Virgin Mary into Heaven)

Proper noun

Assunção ?

1. a surname

Etymology 2

Calque of Spanish Asunción.

Alternative forms

• Ascençam (obsolete)

Proper noun

Assunção f (demonym assunceno)

1. Asunción (the capital and largest city of Paraguay)
   • 1576, Pero de Magalhães Gândavo, chapter 1, in Hiſtoria da prouincia ſãcta Cruz a qui vulgarmẽte chamamos Brasil [History of the Holy Cross province, which we vulgarly call Brazil], Lisbon: Antonio Gonsaluez, page 10r:

     Duzentas & ſetẽta legoas por elle acima, eſtá edificada hũa Cidade pouoada de Caſtelhanos, que ſe chama Aſcençam.

     270 leagues upstream [the Río de la Plata], was built a city inhabited by Castillians, called Asunción.

Usage notes

• Assunção is never indicated by an article; see usage notes for Portugal.