data venia
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “with pardon given” (in Latin), from Latin datā veniā, an ablative absolute construction.
Phrase
[edit]data venia
- (formal) I beg to differ (said before politely disagreeing with someone else)
Further reading
[edit]- “data venia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “data venia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026