voluntário

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Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin voluntārius (“volunteer; willing”), from volō (“to want”).

Pronunciation[edit]

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /vo.lũˈta.ɾi.u/ [vo.lũˈta.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /vo.lũˈta.ɾju/, /vu.lũˈta.ɾi.u/ [vu.lũˈta.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /vu.lũˈta.ɾju/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /vo.lũˈta.ɾi.o/ [vo.lũˈta.ɾɪ.o], (faster pronunciation) /vo.lũˈta.ɾjo/
 

  • Hyphenation: vo‧lun‧tá‧ri‧o

Noun[edit]

voluntário m (plural voluntários, feminine voluntária, feminine plural voluntárias)

  1. volunteer (one who voluntarily offers himself/herself for service)
  2. (military) volunteer (one who enters into military service voluntarily)
    Antonyms: conscrito, recruta

Derived terms[edit]

Adjective[edit]

voluntário (feminine voluntária, masculine plural voluntários, feminine plural voluntárias)

  1. voluntary (done, given, or acting of one’s own free will)
    Synonym: arbitrário
  2. voluntary (working or done without payment)
    Synonym: espontâneo

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