dezesseis

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal (Brazil): dezesseis     Cardinal (Portugal): dezasseis     Ordinal: décimo sexto     Ordinal abbreviation: 16.º, 16º     Fractional (Brazil): dezesseis avos     Fractional (Portugal): dezasseis avos
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 16

Alternative forms

• dezasseis (Portugal)

obsolete and nonstandard spellings

• desaseis (obsolete)
• desaseys (obsolete, rare)
• desasseis (obsolete)
• deseseis (obsolete)
• desesseis (obsolete, now a common misspelling)
• dezaseis (obsolete)
• dezaseys (obsolete)
• dezasseys (obsolete, rare)
• dezeseis (obsolete, now a common misspelling)
• dez e seis (obsolete, rare)
• dez e seys (obsolete, rare)
• dizesseis (eye dialect, Brazil)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese dez (“ten”) + e (“and”) + seys (“six”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.zeˈsejs/ [de.zeˈseɪ̯s], /d͡ʒi.zeˈsejs/ [d͡ʒi.zeˈseɪ̯s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.zeˈsejs/ [de.zeˈseɪ̯s], /d͡ʒi.zeˈsejs/ [d͡ʒi.zeˈseɪ̯s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /de.zeˈsejʃ/ [de.zeˈseɪ̯ʃ], /d͡ʒi.zeˈsejʃ/ [d͡ʒi.zeˈseɪ̯ʃ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.zeˈsejs/ [de.zeˈseɪ̯s]

• Audio (Brazil):

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• Rhymes: -ejʃ
• Hyphenation: de‧zes‧seis

Numeral

dezesseis m or f (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)

1. sixteen
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 271:

     Você tem dezesseis anos...

     You are sixteen years old...

Noun

dezesseis m (invariable) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)

1. sixteen

Further reading

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