doação
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- doaçaõ (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese dõaçon, from Latin dōnātiōnem. By surface analysis, doar + -ção. Compare Galician doazón.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /do.aˈsɐ̃w̃/ [do.aˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /dwɐˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Hyphenation: do‧a‧ção
Noun
doação f (plural doações)
- donation
- act or effect of donating
- (law) contract by which a person, in a spirit of liberality and at the expense of his or her assets, freely disposes of a thing or a right, or assumes an obligation, for the benefit of the other contracting party
- thing donated