mão

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mao"

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• maão

Etymology

From Latin manus (“hand”), from Proto-Italic *manus, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmã.o/

Noun

mão f

1. hand
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 294 (facsimile):

     Como hũa moller q̇ iogaua os dados en pulla lançou hũa pedra aa omagen de ſ[ant]a mari[a] por q̇ perdera ⁊ parou un angeo de pedra que y eſtava a mão ⁊ reçibiu o colpe.

     How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.

Descendants

• Galician: man, mao
• Portuguese: mão
  • Kabuverdianu: mo

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Portuguese

mão

Alternative forms

• maõ (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mão (“hand”), from Latin manus (“hand”), from Proto-Italic *manus, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Galician man, Spanish mano, Catalan mà, Occitan man, French main, Italian mano and Romanian mână.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃w̃/
• Hyphenation: mão
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃

Noun

1. hand
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 52:

     Apontara com a mão machucada.

     He had pointed it using his wounded hand.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mão.

Derived terms

• à mão de semear
• de mãos dadas
• mão-de-obra
• mão-posta

Related terms

• maneio
• maneira
• manejar
• manobra
• manter
• manual

• manufactura
• manuscrito
• manusear
• manuseio
• mãozinha
• mãozudo

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: mo