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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Tupi -gûasu.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: -a‧çu
Suffix
-açu m or f (noun-forming suffix, plural -açus)
- (no longer productive) forms the augmentative of nouns
Usage notes
Despite most words suffixed with -açu being direct borrowings from Old Tupi, there's a number of them that got suffixed later and have no related term in that language, like minhocuçu.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “-açu” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “açu”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “açu”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “açu”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024