almoço

See also: almôço

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• almôço (obsolete, noun only)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese almorço, from Latin admorsus or Vulgar Latin *admordium, in either case deriving from admordeō (“I bite or gnaw at or into”), or from morsus with the prefix al- added due to influence from Arabic. Compare Spanish almuerzo.

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (Portugal) IPA^(key): /aɫ.ˈmo.su/
  • (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.ˈmo.su/
• Verb:
  • (Portugal) IPA^(key): /aɫ.ˈmɔ.su/
  • (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.ˈmɔ.su/
• Hyphenation: al‧mo‧ço

Noun

almoço m (plural almoços)

1. lunch (meal eaten at noon)

Usage notes

The plural is metaphonic in Portugal, but not in Brazil.

Derived terms

• almocinho, almoçozinho (diminutives)
• almoção (augmentative)
• almoçador
• almoço ajantarado
• pequeno-almoço

Related terms

• almoçar

Descendants

• Angolar: lomothu
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: almos, almosu
• Indo-Portuguese: almoça
• Kabuverdianu: almusu
• Principense: romosu
• Tetum: almosu

Verb

almoço

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of almoçar