galardão

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese galardon, gualardon, cognate with Spanish galardón; ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wiþrą (“against”) + *launą (“reward”), literally "back-payment".^[1] Compare Old French guerdon, Old High German widarlōn, Old English wiþerlēan.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡa.laʁˈdɐ̃w̃/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ɡa.laɾˈdɐ̃w̃/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ɡa.laʁˈdɐ̃w̃/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡa.laɻˈdɐ̃w̃/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɐ.lɐɾˈdɐ̃w̃/

Hyphenation: ga‧lar‧dão

Noun

galardão m (plural galardões)

reward
prize

References

^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “galardón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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