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Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese naçon, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin nātiōnem, from Proto-Italic *gnātiō (“family”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: na‧ção
Noun
nação f (plural nações)
- nation (group of people sharing aspects of language, culture and/or ethnicity)
- nation (country)
Related terms
Further reading
- “nação” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913