chegada

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese chegada, from chegar (“arrive”), from Latin plicāre (“fold up, arrive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait, to weave”); alternatively, chegar +‎ -ada.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: che‧ga‧da

Adjective

chegada f sg

  1. feminine singular of chegado

Noun

chegada f (plural chegadas)

  1. arrival (act of arriving or something that has arrived)
  2. finish line
    Synonyms: fim, linha de chegada, termo

Participle

chegada f sg

  1. feminine singular of chegado

Further reading

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