capitão

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See also: capitaõ and Capitão

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese capitan, capitam, from Genoese Ligurian capitan, from Late Latin capitānus, from capitāneus, or from Latin capitālis.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: ca‧pi‧tão

Noun

capitão m (plural capitães, feminine capitã or capitoa, feminine plural capitãs or capitoas)

  1. (military) captain (army officer rank)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208

Further reading

  • “capitão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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