pagão

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Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin pāgānum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈɡã.u/, /paˈɡã.ŋo/

Adjective

pagão m (plural pagãos, feminine pagãa, feminine plural pagãas)

  1. pagan

Descendants

  • Galician: pagán
  • Portuguese: pagão

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pagão, from Latin pāgānus (“rural; rustic”), from pāgus (“countryside”). Compare Galician pagán, Spanish pagano.

Pronunciation

Adjective

pagão (feminine pagã, masculine plural pagãos, feminine plural pagãs)

  1. (religion) pagan; heathenish

Noun

pagão m (plural pagãos, feminine pagã, feminine plural pagãs)

  1. (religion) pagan; heathen (person who does not follow an Abrahamic religion)
  2. (paganism) neopagan
    Synonym: neopagão

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “pagão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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