interjeição

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• intergeição (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér

Proto-Italic *n̥ter

Latin inter

Latin inter-

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-kt

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder.

Latin iaciō

Latin interiaciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin interiectiōnemslbor.

Portuguese interjeição

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin interiectiōnem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁ.ʒejˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.teɦ.ʒeɪ̯ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁ.ʒejˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.teɦ.ʒeɪ̯ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teɾ.ʒejˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.teɾ.ʒeɪ̯ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁ.ʒejˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.teʁ.ʒeɪ̯ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teɻ.ʒejˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.teɻ.ʒeɪ̯ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨɾ.ʒɐjˈsɐ̃w̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨɾ.ʒɐjˈsɐ̃w̃/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨɾ.ʒejˈsɐ̃w̃/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨɾ.ʒejˈsɐ̃w̃/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨɾ.ʒeˈsɐ̃w̃/

• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧jei‧ção

Noun

interjeição f (plural interjeições)

1. interjection

Further reading

• “interjeição”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026