declinação

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēclīnātiō, dēclīnātiōnem (declension, declination), from dēclīnō (I decline), from de (down) + clīnō (I bend, I incline), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.

Pronunciation

  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /de.kli.na.ˈsɐ̃õ/
  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: de‧cli‧na‧ção

Noun

declinação f (plural declinações)

  1. (grammar) declension (a way of categorizing nouns)
  2. decline, decadence, fall
  3. declination, refusal

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Further reading

  • declinação in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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