facção
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin factiōnem. Compare the inherited doublet feição (“aspect, feature”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /fakˈsɐ̃w̃/ [fakˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
Audio (Brazil): (file) - Hyphenation: fac‧ção
Noun
facção f (plural facções) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)
- militia
- faction (group of people)
- (politics) a subdivision of a political party
- (religion) sect
- Synonym: seita
- clipping of facção criminosa
Meronyms
- (faction): pessoa, indivíduo
- (subdivision of political party): político
- (sect): religioso, fiel, crente
Holonyms
Related terms
- faccionado
- faccionar
- facciosidade
- facciosismo
- faccioso