razão
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See also: razaõ
Galician[edit]
Noun[edit]
razão f (plural razões, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of razón
References[edit]
- “razão” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese razon, from Latin ratiōnem. Doublet of ração and rácio.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: ra‧zão
Noun[edit]
razão f (plural razões)
- reason (the ability to think correctly)
- Synonym: raciocínio
- Usar a razão dá resultados melhores do que usar a emoção.
- Using reason yields better results than using emotion.
- reason; motive (the cause of an action or determination)
- Synonym: motivo
- Qual é a razão dessa briga?
- What is the reason for this fight?
- correctness; rightness (the condition of being right)
- Eu acho que vai chover, ele acha que não. Logo veremos quem tem razão.
- I think it’s going to rain, he thinks it won’t. Soon we will see who is right.
- (literally, “... Soon we will see who has correctness.”)
- (mathematics) ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities)
- A razão dos lados desse retângulo é de cinco por sete.
- The ratio of this rectangle’s sides is five to seven.
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:razão.
Related terms[edit]
Categories:
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician terms spelled with Ã
- Galician feminine nouns
- Galician reintegrationist forms
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese terms with usage examples
- pt:Mathematics