afogamento

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Portuguese afogar

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Old Galician-Portuguese -mento

Portuguese -mento

Portuguese afogamento

From afogar (“to drown”) + -mento.

Noun

afogamento m (plural afogamentos)

1. drowning (an instance of a person or animal drowning)

Related terms

• afogado
• afogar
• afogamento simulado

Further reading

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