"preguiça" meaning in All languages combined

See preguiça on Wiktionary

Noun [Portuguese]

IPA: /pɾeˈɡi.sɐ/ [Brazil], /pɾiˈɡi.sɐ/ [Brazil], /pɾeˈɡi.sɐ/ [Brazil], /pɾiˈɡi.sɐ/ [Brazil], /pɾeˈɡi.sa/ [Southern-Brazil], /pɾɨˈɡi.sɐ/ [Portugal], [pɾɨˈɣi.sɐ] [Portugal], /pɾɛ.ˈɡi.sa/ [Northeast-Brazil] Forms: preguiças [plural]
Rhymes: -isɐ Etymology: From Old Galician-Portuguese pegriça, from Latin pigritia. Cognate with Italian pigrizia, Spanish pereza, French paresse. Etymology templates: {{inh|pt|roa-opt|pegriça}} Old Galician-Portuguese pegriça, {{inh|pt|la|pigritia}} Latin pigritia, {{cog|it|pigrizia}} Italian pigrizia, {{cog|es|pereza}} Spanish pereza, {{cog|fr|paresse}} French paresse Head templates: {{pt-noun|f}} preguiça f (plural preguiças)
  1. laziness; sloth (unwillingness to do work) Tags: feminine Synonyms: ócio, ociosidade, vadiagem
    Sense id: en-preguiça-pt-noun-xl-72ApE
  2. sloth (any animal in the suborder Folivora) Tags: feminine Synonyms: bicho-preguiça,
    Sense id: en-preguiça-pt-noun-nbNaQYRk Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header, Anteaters and sloths Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 61 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 64 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 35 65 Disambiguation of Anteaters and sloths: 39 61
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bicho-preguiça, despreguiçar, espreguiçar, preguiça-comum, preguiça-de-bentinho, preguiça-de-coleira, preguiça-de-dois-dedos, preguiça-de-três-dedos, preguiça-gigante, preguiça-real, preguiça-terrestre, preguiça-terrícola, preguicinha, preguiçoso

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bicho-preguiça"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "despreguiçar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "espreguiçar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "preguiça-comum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "preguiça-de-bentinho"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "preguiça-de-coleira"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "preguiça-de-dois-dedos"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "preguiça-de-três-dedos"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "preguiça-gigante"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "preguiça-real"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "preguiça-terrestre"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "preguiça-terrícola"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "preguicinha"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "preguiçoso"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "roa-opt",
        "3": "pegriça"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese pegriça",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "pigritia"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin pigritia",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "pigrizia"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian pigrizia",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "pereza"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish pereza",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "paresse"
      },
      "expansion": "French paresse",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Galician-Portuguese pegriça, from Latin pigritia. Cognate with Italian pigrizia, Spanish pereza, French paresse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "preguiças",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "preguiça f (plural preguiças)",
      "name": "pt-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "pre",
        "gui",
        "ça"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "diligência"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "laziness; sloth (unwillingness to do work)"
      ],
      "id": "en-preguiça-pt-noun-xl-72ApE",
      "links": [
        [
          "laziness",
          "laziness"
        ],
        [
          "sloth",
          "sloth"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ócio"
        },
        {
          "word": "ociosidade"
        },
        {
          "word": "vadiagem"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 64",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "pt",
          "name": "Anteaters and sloths",
          "orig": "pt:Anteaters and sloths",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sloth (any animal in the suborder Folivora)"
      ],
      "id": "en-preguiça-pt-noun-nbNaQYRk",
      "links": [
        [
          "sloth",
          "sloth"
        ],
        [
          "Folivora",
          "Folivora#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bicho-preguiça"
        },
        {
          "word": "aí"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾeˈɡi.sɐ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾiˈɡi.sɐ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾeˈɡi.sɐ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾiˈɡi.sɐ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾeˈɡi.sa/",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾɨˈɡi.sɐ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pɾɨˈɣi.sɐ]",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾɛ.ˈɡi.sa/",
      "tags": [
        "Northeast-Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-isɐ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "preguiça"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Portuguese 3-syllable words",
    "Portuguese countable nouns",
    "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Portuguese feminine nouns",
    "Portuguese lemmas",
    "Portuguese nouns",
    "Portuguese terms derived from Latin",
    "Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese",
    "Portuguese terms inherited from Latin",
    "Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese",
    "Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Rhymes:Portuguese/isɐ",
    "Rhymes:Portuguese/isɐ/3 syllables",
    "pt:Anteaters and sloths"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bicho-preguiça"
    },
    {
      "word": "despreguiçar"
    },
    {
      "word": "espreguiçar"
    },
    {
      "word": "preguiça-comum"
    },
    {
      "word": "preguiça-de-bentinho"
    },
    {
      "word": "preguiça-de-coleira"
    },
    {
      "word": "preguiça-de-dois-dedos"
    },
    {
      "word": "preguiça-de-três-dedos"
    },
    {
      "word": "preguiça-gigante"
    },
    {
      "word": "preguiça-real"
    },
    {
      "word": "preguiça-terrestre"
    },
    {
      "word": "preguiça-terrícola"
    },
    {
      "word": "preguicinha"
    },
    {
      "word": "preguiçoso"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "roa-opt",
        "3": "pegriça"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese pegriça",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "pigritia"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin pigritia",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "pigrizia"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian pigrizia",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "pereza"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish pereza",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "paresse"
      },
      "expansion": "French paresse",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Galician-Portuguese pegriça, from Latin pigritia. Cognate with Italian pigrizia, Spanish pereza, French paresse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "preguiças",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "preguiça f (plural preguiças)",
      "name": "pt-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "pre",
        "gui",
        "ça"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "diligência"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "laziness; sloth (unwillingness to do work)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "laziness",
          "laziness"
        ],
        [
          "sloth",
          "sloth"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ócio"
        },
        {
          "word": "ociosidade"
        },
        {
          "word": "vadiagem"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "sloth (any animal in the suborder Folivora)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sloth",
          "sloth"
        ],
        [
          "Folivora",
          "Folivora#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bicho-preguiça"
        },
        {
          "word": "aí"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾeˈɡi.sɐ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾiˈɡi.sɐ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾeˈɡi.sɐ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾiˈɡi.sɐ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾeˈɡi.sa/",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾɨˈɡi.sɐ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pɾɨˈɣi.sɐ]",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɾɛ.ˈɡi.sa/",
      "tags": [
        "Northeast-Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-isɐ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "preguiça"
}

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