usuário
See also: usuario
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ūsuārius.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /u.zuˈa.ɾi.u/ [u.zʊˈa.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /uˈzwa.ɾju/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /u.zuˈa.ɾi.o/ [u.zʊˈa.ɾɪ.o], (faster pronunciation) /uˈzwa.ɾjo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /uˈzwa.ɾju/
- Hyphenation: u‧su‧á‧ri‧o
Noun
usuário m (plural usuários, feminine usuária, feminine plural usuárias) (chiefly Brazil)
- user (one who uses something, a consumer)
- Synonyms: utente, utilizador (Portugal)
- (euphemistic) user (one who uses illegal drugs)
- (computing) user (person who uses a computer or a computing network)
- Synonym: utilizador (Portugal)
- (computing) user account
- Synonym: conta
- (computing) username (person’s identification on an individual computer system)
- Synonyms: nome de usuário (Brazil), nome de utilizador (Portugal)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “usuário”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025