pensamento

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese penssamento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from penssar (“to think”) + -mento, from Latin pēnsāre (“to ponder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pensaˈmentʊ]

Noun

pensamento m (plural pensamentos)

1. a thought; an idea

   Synonym: idea

2. (uncountable) thinking (process by which thoughts arise)
3. ideology (beliefs and principle of a group)

   Synonym: ideoloxía

4. garden pansy

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “penssamento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “pensamento”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pensamento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pensamento”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pensamento”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese penssamento, from penssar (“to think”) + -mento, from Latin pēnsāre (“to ponder”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pẽ.saˈmẽ.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pẽ.saˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pẽ.saˈmẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pẽ.sɐˈmẽ.tu/

• Hyphenation: pen‧sa‧men‧to

Noun

pensamento m (plural pensamentos)

1. a thought; an idea

   Synonym: ideia

2. (uncountable) thinking (process by which thoughts arise)

   Synonym: reflexão

3. ideology (beliefs and principle of a group)

   Synonym: ideologia

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pensamento.

Related terms

• pensação
• pensado
• pensador
• pensadouro
• pensamentear
• pensante
• pensar
• pensativamente
• pensatividade
• pensativo
• pensável

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: pensaméntu

Further reading

• “pensamento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pensamento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026