escuridão

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Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese escuridom, escoridõe; by surface analysis, escuro +‎ idão.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.ku.ɾiˈdɐ̃w̃/ , /es.ku.ɾiˈdɐ̃w̃/

  • Hyphenation: es‧cu‧ri‧dão

Noun

escuridão f (plural escuridões)

  1. darkness
  2. gloom
  3. obscurity
  4. night

Further reading

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