nação

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Galician

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /naˈθoŋ/
  • IPA(key): (seseo) /naˈsoŋ/

  • Rhymes: -oŋ
  • Hyphenation: na‧ção

Noun

nação f (plural nações, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of nación

Further reading

  • “nação” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

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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)

  1. nation (group of people sharing aspects of language, culture and/or ethnicity)
  2. nation (country)

Further reading

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