maçã
Portuguese
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese maçãa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value VL. is not valid. See WT:LOL. (māla (“apples”)) mattiana (“of Mattium”), though some theorize that mattiana 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
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value BR is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ma.ˈsɐ̃/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value PT is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /mɐ.ˈsɐ̃/
Audio (Portugal): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃
Noun
maçã f (plural s)
Derived terms
- macieira (“apple tree”)
References
- ^ Agnes, Michael, ed. in chief, Webster's New World College Dictionary, fourth edition, MacMillan, 1999.