parónimo
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Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pa‧ró‧ni‧mo
Noun
parónimo m (plural parónimos)
- paronym (word with same root as other word)
- paronym, near-homophone (word with similar pronunciation as other word)
Adjective
parónimo (feminine parónima, masculine plural parónimos, feminine plural parónimas)
- paronymous (having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning)
- As palavras "comprimento" e "cumprimento" são parónimas.
- The words "comprimento" and "cumprimento" are paronyms.
Further reading
- “parónimo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
parónimo m (plural parónimos)
- paronym (word with same root as other word)
Related terms
Further reading
- “parónimo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28