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Portuguese
Etymology 1
Deverbal from desassossegar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.za.soˈse.ɡu/, /d͡ʒi.za.soˈse.ɡu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /de.za.soˈse.ɡo/
- Hyphenation: de‧sas‧sos‧se‧go
Noun
desassossego m (plural desassossegos)
- unrest, uneasiness
- Synonyms: aflição, inquietação
- Antonym: sossego
1863, José Ignácio Roquette, Diccionario dos synonymos poeticos e de epithetos da lingua portugueza, page 491:... um abuso dos prazeres sensuaes, um abandono a violentas e torpes paixões, uma inquietação e desassossego de animo a que nenhum gozo satisfaz por novo e esquisito que seja.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.za.soˈsɛ.ɡu/, /d͡ʒi.za.soˈsɛ.ɡu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /de.za.soˈsɛ.ɡo/
- Hyphenation: de‧sas‧sos‧se‧go
Verb
desassossego
- first-person singular present indicative of desassossegar