júnior

Learned borrowing from Latin iūnior (“younger”), a contracted form of iuvenior (“younger”), from iuvenis (“young”). Influenced by English junior.

• Hyphenation: jú‧ni‧or

júnior m (plural juniores or (nonstandard) júniores or (Brazil, nonstandard) júniors)

1. junior (especially a junior sportsman)
2. (Brazil, informal, humorous) penis (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

This word’s plural is prescriptively juniores, a paroxytone word; however, it is commonly pronounced with stress on the fourth-to-last syllable, leading to the proscribed form and spelling júniores. Though this type of stress is not usually possible in Portuguese, the pronunciation has a rising diphthong that reduces the number of syllables realized in the word. Additionally, the form júniors, based on English juniors, is common in Brazil. Compare sénior / sênior.

Borrowed from Latin iūnior (“younger”), a contracted form of iuvenior (“younger”), from iuvenis (“young”).

• Rhymes: -unjoɾ
• Syllabification: jú‧nior

júnior m (plural júniores)

1. junior
2. novice

   Synonyms: principiante, novato

• “júnior”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024