intuição

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin intuitiōnem. Cognate with Galician and Spanish intuición and Catalan intuïció. By surface analysis, intuir +‎ -ção.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tu.iˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.tʊ.iˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃], /ĩ.tujˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.tuɪ̯ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.twiˈsɐ̃w̃/

Hyphenation: in‧tu‧i‧ção

Noun

intuição f (plural intuições)

intuition
hunch, feeling, presentment

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