decadência

See also: decadencia and decadència

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French décadence, from Late Latin decadentia, from decadens.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ẽsiɐ
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.kaˈdẽ.si.ɐ/ [de.kaˈdẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /de.kaˈdẽ.sjɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /de.kaˈdẽ.si.a/ [de.kaˈdẽ.sɪ.a], (faster pronunciation) /de.kaˈdẽ.sja/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨ.kɐˈdẽ.sjɐ/ [dɨ.kɐˈðẽ.sjɐ]

  • Hyphenation: de‧ca‧dên‧ci‧a

Noun

decadência f (plural decadências)

  1. decline, decay (deterioration of condition)
  2. decadence (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
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