pensão

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti

Proto-Italic *pendō

Latin pendō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin pēnsiōnembor.

Portuguese pensão

Borrowed from Latin pēnsiōnem.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pẽˈsɐ̃w̃/ [pẽˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pẽˈsɐ̃w̃/

• Hyphenation: pen‧são

Noun

pensão f (plural pensões)

1. pension
2. alimony
3. boarding house (house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals)

Related terms

• pensar

Descendants

• Macanese: pensám

Further reading

• “pensão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pensão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “pensão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026