eleição
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese eleiçon, eiliçon, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin ēlēctiōnem.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /e.lejˈsɐ̃w̃/ [e.leɪ̯ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /i.lɐjˈsɐ̃w̃/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /i.lejˈsɐ̃w̃/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /i.lejˈsɐ̃w̃/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /i.leˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Hyphenation: e‧lei‧ção
Noun
eleição f (plural eleições)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Tetum: eleisaun
Further reading
- “eleição” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913