maçã

See also: maca, macà, maça, maçâ, and маса

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese maçãa, from Vulgar Latin māla Mattiāna (literally “apples of Mattium”), though some theorize that Mattiāna was an Iberian pronunciation of the Gallo-Roman word matianium, a golden apple named after Gaius Matius, a horticulturist and friend of Caesar.^[1]

Cognate with Galician mazá, Aragonese and Asturian mazana, Mirandese maçana and Spanish manzana (Old Spanish maçana).

Pronunciation[edit]

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈsɐ̃/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈsɐ̃/

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Rhymes: -ɐ̃
Hyphenation: ma‧çã

Noun[edit]

maçã f (plural maçãs)

apple (fruit)
Synonym: (poetic) pomo

Derived terms[edit]

maçãzinha (diminutive)
maçãzona (augmentative)
macieira (“apple tree”)

References[edit]

^ Agnes, Michael, ed. in chief, Webster's New World College Dictionary, fourth edition, MacMillan, 1999.

[1] Agnes, Michael, ed. in chief, Webster's New World College Dictionary, fourth edition, MacMillan, 1999.

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