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Portuguese
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin immunditia (“untidiness”). By surface analysis, imundo + -ície.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /i.mũˈd͡ʒi.si.i/ , (faster pronunciation) /i.mũˈd͡ʒi.sji/, /i.mũˈd͡ʒi.si/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /i.mũˈd͡ʒi.si.i/ , (faster pronunciation) /i.mũˈd͡ʒi.sji/, /i.mũˈd͡ʒi.si/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /i.mũˈd͡ʒi.si.e/ , (faster pronunciation) /i.mũˈd͡ʒi.sje/, /i.mũˈd͡ʒi.se/
Noun
imundície f (plural imundícies)
- filth, dirt
1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter CXV, in Noticia do Brasil, Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 268:Como não ha ouro sem fezes, nem tudo é à vontade dos homens, ordenou Deus que entre tantas cousas proveitosas, para o serviço d'elles, como fez na Bahia, houvesse algumas immundicias que os enfadasse muito, para que nao cuidassem que estavam em outro paraizo terreal, de que diremos d'aqui por diante; começando no capitulo que se segue das lagartas.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)