vizinho

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese vizinno, vezinno, from Latin vīcīnus (neighbour), from vīcus (quarter; village), from Proto-Indo-European *weiḱ- (to settle; settlement, tribe).

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /vi.ˈzi.ɲu/, /vɨ.ˈzi.ɲu/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /vi.ˈzi.ɲu/
  • Hyphenation: vi‧zi‧nho

Adjective

vizinho m (feminine singular vizinha, masculine plural vizinhos, feminine plural vizinhas, comparable)

  1. neighbouring; adjacent (located next to something)
    Casas vizinhas.
    Neighbouring houses.
  2. neighbouring; adjacent; contiguous (sharing a border)
    Países vizinhos.
    Neighbouring countries.
  3. (figuratively) analogous; related; connected (having many similarities)
    Conceitos vizinhos.
    Analogous concepts.
  4. (figuratively) adjacent in a scale or rank
    Ré e mi são notas vizinhas.
    D and E are adjacent notes.

Inflection

Synonyms

Noun

vizinho m (plural vizinhos, feminine vizinha, feminine plural vizinhas)

  1. neighbor (person who lives next to another)
    Ele é nosso vizinho.
    He is our neighbor.
  2. neighbor (place or object located next to another)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: vizinhu
  • Kabuverdianu: bizinhu
  • Papiamentu: bisiña
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