cadeia

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈdej.ɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈdej.a/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈdɐj.ɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈdej.ɐ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈdej.ɐ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈde.ɐ/

Rhymes: -ejɐ, -ɐjɐ
Hyphenation: ca‧dei‧a

Etymology 1

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cadeia

cadeia (sense 2)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cadea, from Latin catēna, from Proto-Italic *katesnā. Compare Galician cadea, Spanish cadena, and English chain. Doublet of the direct borrowing catena.

Noun

cadeia f (plural cadeias)

prison (place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes)
Synonym: prisão
- 2019 May 22, Glenn Greenwald, quoting Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, “Glenn Greenwald entrevista Lula: ‘Bolsonaro é a velha política, eu sou a nova’”, in The Intercept‎:
  Então, veja, para ficar muito claro, eu acho que se alguém roubar deve ir para a cadeia sendo do PT ou não sendo do PT, sendo católico ou evangélico, sabe?
  Listen, let me be crystal clear: I think if someone steals, they should go to jail, whether they’re PT or not, whether they’re Catholic or evangelical, you know?
chain (series of interconnected rings or links made of metal)
Synonym: corrente
chain (series of interconnected things)
cadeia montanhosa ― mountain chain
chain (series of stores or businesses with the same brand name)
(organic chemistry, physical chemistry) chain (number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule)

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Hunsrik: Katee
→ Tetum: kadeia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cadeia

inflection of cadear:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

“cadeia”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
“cadeia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

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