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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin voluntārius (“volunteer; willing”), from volō (“to want”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /vo.lũˈta.ɾi.u/ , (faster pronunciation) /vo.lũˈta.ɾju/, /vu.lũˈta.ɾi.u/ , (faster pronunciation) /vu.lũˈta.ɾju/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /vo.lũˈta.ɾi.u/ , (faster pronunciation) /vo.lũˈta.ɾju/, /vu.lũˈta.ɾi.u/ , (faster pronunciation) /vu.lũˈta.ɾju/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /vo.lũˈta.ɾi.o/ , (faster pronunciation) /vo.lũˈta.ɾjo/
- Hyphenation: vo‧lun‧tá‧ri‧o
Noun
voluntário m (plural voluntários, feminine voluntária, feminine plural voluntárias)
- volunteer (one who voluntarily offers himself/herself for service)
- (military) volunteer (one who enters into military service voluntarily)
- Antonyms: conscrito, recruta
Derived terms
Adjective
voluntário (feminine voluntária, masculine plural voluntários, feminine plural voluntárias)
- voluntary (done, given, or acting of one’s own free will)
- Synonym: arbitrário
- voluntary (working or done without payment)
- Synonym: espontâneo