ligação

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ-der.

Latin ligō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Late Latin ligātiōnemlbor.

Portuguese ligação

Learned borrowing from Late Latin ligātiōnem. By surface analysis, ligar + -ção. Compare Galician and Spanish ligazón, French liaison.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /li.ɡaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [li.ɡaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /li.ɡɐˈsɐ̃w̃/ [li.ɣɐˈsɐ̃w̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /li.ɡɐˈsɐ̃w̃/ [li.ɣɐˈsɐ̃w̃]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /li.ɡɐˈsɐ̃w̃/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Hyphenation: li‧ga‧ção

Noun

ligação f (plural ligações)

1. link
2. connection
3. (chemistry) bond (link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule)
4. (formal, Internet) hyperlink, weblink

   Synonym: link

5. call (telephone conversation)

   Synonym: chamada

Further reading

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