vergonha
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Galician
Noun
vergonha f (plural vergonhas, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of vergoña
Further reading
- “vergonha” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Occitan
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Occitan vergọnha, vergọnja f (attested since the 12th c.), from Vulgar Latin *verecunnia f, from Latin verēcundia f.
Compare Catalan vergonya f, Portuguese vergonha f, French vergogne f.
Pronunciation
Noun
vergonha f (plural vergonhas)
- shame
- French government policies that disparage and marginalize non-French languages
Derived terms
- aver vergonha (“be ashamed”)
- avergonhar
- en vergonha (“ashamed”)
- far vergonha (“to embarrass, disgrace”)
- portar vergonha (“to embarrass, disgrace”)
- vergonhós (“shamful”)
- virar la vergonha darrièr lo cotet (“to reject one's shame”)
Further reading
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 726.
- DOM en ligne Dictionnaire de l'Occitan Médiéval
- Lexic occitan medieval
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vergonna (displacing collateral form vergonça, compare Spanish vergüenza), from Vulgar Latin *verecunnia, from the Latin verēcundia. Compare French vergogne, Catalan vergonya. Doublet of verecúndia.
Pronunciation
Noun
vergonha f (plural vergonhas)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “vergonha” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “vergonha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “vergonha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025