capitão
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Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese capitan, capitam, from Genoese Ligurian capitan, from Late Latin capitānus, from capitāneus, or from Latin capitālis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
capitão m (plural capitães, feminine capitã or capitoa, feminine plural capitãs or capitoas)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208
Further reading[edit]
- “capitão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- Portuguese terms derived from Ligurian
- Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃
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