dois-pontos
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Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Literally, “two dots”. Compare French deux points, Spanish dos puntos.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: dois‧pon‧tos
Noun
dois-pontos m pl (plural only)
- colon (punctuation mark)
Usage notes
- Although the use of hyphen is said to be facultative, only the hyphenated form is found in dictionaries and the orthographic vocabularies of both Academia Brasileira de Letras and Academia das Ciências de Lisboa.
Further reading
- “dois-pontos”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “dois-pontos”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
- “dois-pontos”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
- “dois-pontos”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “dois-pontos”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025