sustentação

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin sustentatio.

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /sustẽtaˈsɐ̃w̃/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /suʃtẽtɐˈsɐ̃w̃/
  • Hyphenation: sus‧ten‧ta‧ção

Noun

sustentação f (plural sustentações)

  1. sustentation; sustainment (act of sustaining)
  2. lift (upward force that keeps aircraft aloft)
  3. support

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