segurança
Portuguese
Etymology
segurar (“to hold; to secure”) + -ança
Pronunciation
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Noun
segurança f (plural seguranças)
- security; safety (condition of not being threatened)
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- A segurança está cem vezes mais rigorosa este verão.
- The security is a hundred times more severe this summer.
- Estas grades de ferro estão aqui para nossa segurança.
- These iron bars are here for our safety.
- (by extension) any object related to the safety of something or some place
- (military) a set of devices designed to help avoid surprise attacks
- certainity; trust
- Falou com segurança. ― He spoke with certainity.
- (rare) the act of holding or sustaining
- (zoology) the pregnancy of quadrupedals
Noun
segurança m or f (plural seguranças)
Categories:
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -ança
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
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- pt:Military
- Portuguese terms with rare senses
- pt:Zoology
- Portuguese nouns with irregular gender
- Portuguese masculine nouns
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