criança

Catalan

Etymology

From criar (“to raise”) +‎ -ança.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [kɾiˈan.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [kɾiˈan.sa]
• Rhymes: -ansa

Noun

criança f (plural criances)

1. upbringing

Further reading

• “criança”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “criança”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “criança” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “criança”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Portuguese

crianças

Alternative forms

• creança (pre-standardization spelling)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese criança. By surface analysis, criar (“to raise”) +‎ -ança. Compare Spanish crianza and Medieval Latin creantia.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾiˈɐ̃.sɐ/ [kɾɪˈɐ̃.sɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈkɾjɐ̃.sɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾiˈɐ̃.sɐ/ [kɾɪˈɐ̃.sɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈkɾjɐ̃.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾiˈɐ̃.sa/ [kɾɪˈɐ̃.sa], (faster pronunciation) /ˈkɾjɐ̃.sa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɾiˈɐ̃.sɐ/, (faster pronunciation) /ˈkɾjɐ̃.sɐ/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɾiˈɐ̃.sa/

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• Rhymes: -ɐ̃sɐ
• Hyphenation: cri‧an‧ça

Noun

criança f (plural crianças)

1. child (young person)

Derived terms

• criancinha (diminutive)
• crianção, criançona
• criancice

Descendants

• Kristang: krensa
• Macanese: quiança

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• carniça