almoço
See also: almôço
Portuguese
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese almorço, from Latin admorsus or Vulgar Latin *admordium, in either case deriving from Latin admordeō (“to bite or gnaw at or into”). Compare Spanish almuerzo.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: al‧mo‧ço
Noun
editalmoço m (plural almoços, metaphonic)
- lunch (meal eaten at noon)
Usage notes
edit- The plural is metaphonic in Portugal, but not in Brazil.
Derived terms
edit- almocinho (diminutive), almoçozinho (diminutive)
- almoção (augmentative)
- almoçador
- almoço ajantarado
- pequeno-almoço
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Angolar: lomothu
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: almos, almosu
- Indo-Portuguese: almoça
- Kabuverdianu: almusu
- Principense: romosu
- Tetum: almosu
Etymology 2
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: al‧mo‧ço
Verb
editalmoço
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese nouns with metaphony
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
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