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Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese geeraçon, *gẽeraçon, from Latin generātiōnem. By surface analysis, gerar + -ção.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: ge‧ra‧ção
Noun
geração f (plural gerações)
- generation (origination by some process; formation)
- age, generation (period of around thirty years)
Descendants
Further reading
- “geração” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913