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Portuguese
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French canton.[1][2] By surface analysis, canto + -ão.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: can‧tão
Noun
cantão m (plural cantões)
- (government) canton (state-level subdivision of Switzerland, Luxembourg and Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- (government) canton (subdivision of an arrondissement in France)
- (heraldry) canton (charge in upper dexter corner of shield)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From canto + -ão.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: can‧tão
Noun
cantão m (plural cantões)
- Augmentative of canto
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
cantão
- Obsolete spelling of cantam.
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