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Portuguese
Etymology
From poli- + sintético.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌpɔ.li.sĩˈtɛ.t͡ʃi.ku/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌpɔ.li.sĩˈtɛ.t͡ʃi.ko/
- Hyphenation: po‧lis‧sin‧té‧ti‧co
Adjective
polissintético (feminine polissintética, masculine plural polissintéticos, feminine plural polissintéticas)
- (linguistics, of a language) polysynthetic (characterised by a prevalence of words containing a very large number of morphemes)
Further reading
- “polissintético”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “polissintético” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “polissintético”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “polissintético”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “polissintético”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024