vergonha
Occitan
Alternative forms
- vergougno (Mistralian)
Etymology
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *verecunnia, from Latin verēcundia. Compare Catalan vergonya, Portuguese vergonha, French vergogne.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [berˈɣuɲo]
Audio (file)
Noun
vergonha f (plural vergonhas)
- shame
- French government policies that disparage and marginalize non-French languages
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- vergonça (obsolete)
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
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /veʁˈɡõ.ɲɐ/ [veɦˈɡõ.j̃ɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /veɾˈɡõ.ɲɐ/ [veɾˈɡõ.j̃ɐ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /veʁˈɡõ.ɲɐ/ [veʁˈɡõ.j̃ɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /veɻˈɡo.ɲa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /vɨɾˈɡo.ɲɐ/ [vɨɾˈɣo.ɲɐ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /bɨɾˈɡo.ɲɐ/ [bɨɾˈɣo.ɲɐ]
Audio (Brazil) (file) - Hyphenation: ver‧go‧nha
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Macanese: vegónha, vegônha
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