maçã
Portuguese
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese maçãa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin (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
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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.
Categories:
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Fruits