afastamento

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Portuguese afastar

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Old Galician-Portuguese -mento

Portuguese -mento

Portuguese afastamento

From afastar (“to move away; to repel”) + -mento.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.fas.taˈmẽ.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.fas.taˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.faʃ.taˈmẽ.tu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.fɐʃ.tɐˈmẽ.tu/

• Hyphenation: a‧fas‧ta‧men‧to

Noun

afastamento m (plural afastamentos)

1. the act or result of repelling or of moving two things away from each other
2. the distance between things

   Synonym: distância

3. the process of growing apart (of people becoming less acquainted with each other); distancing

   Synonym: distanciamento

4. a temporary removal from office
5. (statistics) the difference between a predicted value and the actual result

   Synonyms: afastança, desvio, divergência, diversão, separação

6. (transport) deviation of a vehicle or craft from a route

Related terms

• afastado
• afastador
• afastança
• afastar

Further reading

• “afastamento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “afastamento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026