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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin dēficientia, from Latin dēficiēns. Compare Catalan deficiència, French déficience, Italian deficienza, Spanish deficiencia.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.fi.siˈẽ.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /de.fiˈsjẽ.sjɐ/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.fi.siˈẽ.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /de.fiˈsjẽ.sjɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /de.fi.siˈẽ.si.a/ , (faster pronunciation) /de.fiˈsjẽ.sja/
- Rhymes: -ẽsɪɐ, -ẽsjɐ
- Hyphenation: de‧fi‧ci‧ên‧ci‧a
Noun
deficiência f (plural deficiências)
- deficiency
- deficit
- shortcoming
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Further reading
- “deficiência”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “deficiência”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “deficiência” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “deficiência”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “deficiência”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “deficiência”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024