chão
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Old Portuguese[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin plānum (“level ground”).
Noun[edit]
chão m (plural chãos)
- ground, floor
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, , E codex, cantiga 236 (facsimile):
- Como hũa moller que perigoóu no mar. ⁊ tragia un fillo pequeno nos braços. ⁊ fezea ſanta maria per címa das aguas andar de pé aſſi como ẏria per un muí bon chão.
- How a woman who sank in the sea. And had a small child in her arms. And Holy Mary brought her over the water to walk as she would in a good floor.
- Como hũa moller que perigoóu no mar. ⁊ tragia un fillo pequeno nos braços. ⁊ fezea ſanta maria per címa das aguas andar de pé aſſi como ẏria per un muí bon chão.
- flatland, plain
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Latin plānus (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Adjective[edit]
chão (plural chãos, feminine chãa, feminine plural chãas)
- flat, smooth
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, , E codex, 325 cantiga Cantiga 325 (facsimile):
- Pois a Catiua eſperta. / foi achouſſ en űu camỹo / ancho ⁊ chão ſen pedras / ⁊ andou o mui feſtỹno
- So the smart captive / went and found herself in a path, / ample and flat, without rocks, / and walked through it very quickly.
- Pois a Catiua eſperta. / foi achouſſ en űu camỹo / ancho ⁊ chão ſen pedras / ⁊ andou o mui feſtỹno
Descendants[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: chão
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Portuguese chão (“ground”), inherited from Latin plānum (“level ground”) < plānus, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Compare Spanish llano and Galician chan. See also the borrowed doublet plano and the semi-learned porão.
Noun[edit]
chão m (plural chãos)
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Portuguese chão (“flat, smooth”), from Latin plānus. Doublet of plano, as above, and piano.
Adjective[edit]
chão (feminine singular chã, masculine plural chãos, feminine plural chãs, comparable)
Vietnamese[edit]
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Noun[edit]
- (in compounds) frog
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