pião

See also: piao, piáo, piào, piāo, and piǎo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /piˈɐ̃w̃/ [pɪˈɐ̃ʊ̯̃], (faster pronunciation) /ˈpjɐ̃w̃/ [ˈpjɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Homophone: peão
  • Hyphenation: pi‧ão

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese peon, from Late Latin pedōnem (“pedestrian”), derived from Latin ped- (“foot”). Compare Galician peón.

Noun

pião m (plural piões)

  1. spinning top (a type of toy that spins on its axis)

Etymology 2

From English pion.[1]

Noun

pião m (plural piões)

  1. European Portuguese standard form of píon

References

  1. ^ “pião”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.