computação

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin putus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin putō

Latin computō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin computātiōnemlbor.

Portuguese computação

Learned borrowing from Latin computātiōnem. By surface analysis, computar +‎ -ção.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.pu.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ [kõ.pu.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõ.pu.tɐˈsɐ̃w̃/

• Hyphenation: com‧pu‧ta‧ção

Noun

computação f (plural computações)

1. computation (the act of computing something)
2. computing (the study, field of computers and computer programming)

   Synonym: informática

Further reading

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