usuário

See also: usuario

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ūsuārius.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.zuˈa.ɾi.u/ [u.zʊˈa.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /uˈzwa.ɾju/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.zuˈa.ɾi.u/ [u.zʊˈa.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /uˈzwa.ɾju/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.zuˈa.ɾi.o/ [u.zʊˈa.ɾɪ.o], (faster pronunciation) /uˈzwa.ɾjo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /uˈzwa.ɾju/

• Hyphenation: u‧su‧á‧ri‧o

Noun

usuário m (plural usuários, feminine usuária, feminine plural usuárias) (chiefly Brazil)

1. user (one who uses something, a consumer)

   Synonyms: utente, utilizador (Portugal)

2. (euphemistic) user (one who uses illegal drugs)

   Synonyms: drogado, viciado

3. (computing) user (person who uses a computer or a computing network)

   Synonym: utilizador (Portugal)

4. (computing) user account

   Synonym: conta

5. (computing) username (person’s identification on an individual computer system)

   Synonyms: nome de usuário (Brazil), nome de utilizador (Portugal)

Derived terms

• monousuário
• multiusuário

 

Related terms

• usar
• uso
• usual
• usualmente

 

Further reading

• “usuário”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024