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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin dēclīnātiōnem (“declension, declination”). By surface analysis, declinar + -ção.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: de‧cli‧na‧ção
Noun
declinação f (plural declinações)
- (grammar) declension (a way of categorizing nouns)
- decline, decadence, fall
- Synonyms: queda, decadência, declínio
- Antonym: ascensão
- declination, refusal
- Synonym: rejeição
- Antonym: aceitação
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Further reading
- “declinação” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913