panteão
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Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin Pantheon, from Ancient Greek Πάνθειον (Pántheion, “a temple of all gods”), neuter of πάνθειος (pántheios, “of or common to all gods”), from πᾶν (pân, “all, everything”) + θείος (theíos, “of or for the gods”), from θεός (theós, “god”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pan‧te‧ão
Noun
panteão m (plural panteões)
- (mythology) pantheon (all the gods of a particular religion)
- pantheon (temple dedicated to all the gods)
- pantheon (category or classification denoting the most honored persons of a group)
Further reading
- “panteão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024