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Portuguese
Etymology
From porta (“it carries”, verb) + avião (“airplane”, noun).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌpɔʁ.tɐ.a.viˈõj̃s/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˌpɔʁ.tɐ.aˈvjõj̃s/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌpɔʁ.tɐ.a.viˈõj̃s/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˌpɔʁ.tɐ.aˈvjõj̃s/
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.a.viˈõj̃s/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.aˈvjõj̃s/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˌpɔʁ.tɐ.a.viˈõj̃ʃ/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˌpɔʁ.tɐ.aˈvjõj̃ʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌpɔɻ.ta.a.viˈõj̃s/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˌpɔɻ.ta.aˈvjõj̃s/
- Hyphenation: por‧ta‧a‧vi‧ões
Noun
porta-aviões m (invariable)
- aircraft carrier (warship for launching aircraft)
2017 April 24, João Ruela Ribeiro, “Coreia do Norte ameaça afundar porta-aviões norte-americano”, in Público:A Coreia do Norte garantiu estar preparada para responder ao que entende ser uma provocação dos seus rivais. “As nossas forças revolucionárias estão preparadas militarmente para afundar o porta-aviões nuclear dos EUA com apenas um ataque”, escreveu o Rodong Sinmun, o jornal oficial do Partido dos Trabalhadores da Coreia.- North Korea has assured that they are prepared to respond to what it considers a provocation by its enemies. Radong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers’ Party of Korea, published that “our revolutionary forces are militarily prepared to sink the US’s nuclear aircraft carrier with a single attack”.