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Galician
Adjective
autónomo (feminine autónoma, masculine plural autónomos, feminine plural autónomas)
- autonomous
- self-employed, freelance
Derived terms
Noun
autónomo m (plural autónomos, feminine autónoma, feminine plural autónomas)
- freelancer
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French autonome, from Ancient Greek αὐτόνομος (autónomos, “having its own laws”), from αὐτός (autós, “self”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔnumu
- Hyphenation: au‧tó‧no‧mo
Adjective
autónomo (feminine autónoma, masculine plural autónomos, feminine plural autónomas) (European Portuguese spelling)
- autonomous (acting on one’s own)
- autonomous (self-governing)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “autônomo”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “autónomo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “autónomo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “autónomo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “autónomo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτόνομος (autónomos, “having its own laws”), from αὐτός (autós, “self”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /auˈtonomo/
- Rhymes: -onomo
- Syllabification: au‧tó‧no‧mo
Adjective
autónomo (feminine autónoma, masculine plural autónomos, feminine plural autónomas)
- autonomous
- Synonym: autonómico
- self-employed, freelance
Derived terms
Noun
autónomo m (plural autónomos, feminine autónoma, feminine plural autónomas)
- freelancer
2020 February 21, “Trabajo busca un cambio legal para acabar con los falsos autónomos”, in El País:En el plan director de la Inspección que puso en marcha se detectaron 30.000 autónomos que realmente debían cotizar en el régimen general e, incluso, creó un nuevo tipo de infracción.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading