nação

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese naçon, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin nātiōnem, from Proto-Italic *gnātiō (“family”).

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /naˈsɐ̃w̃/ [naˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: na‧ção

Noun

nação f (plural nações)

  1. nation (group of people sharing aspects of language, culture and/or ethnicity)
  2. nation (country)

Further reading
  • “nação” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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