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"text": "filho (“son”) + -ão → filhão (“used by a father to address his son, when he is proud of the son”)",
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"text": "amigo (“friend”) + -ão → amigão (“a good friend; a true friend”)",
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"text": "calor (“heat”) + -ão → calorão (“intense heat”)",
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"text": "soco (“punch”) + -ão → socão (“powerful punch”)",
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"text": "cabra (“she-goat”) + -ão → cabrão (“billy goat”)",
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"text": "agulha (“needle”) + -ão → agulhão (“sharp rock on a riverbed”)",
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"text": "fogo (“fire”) + -ão → fogão (“stove”)",
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"text": "quarenta (“forty”) + -ão → quarentão (“someone in his forties”)",
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"text": "arrastar (“to drag”) + -ão → arrastão (“an instance of violently dragging something”)",
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"text": "puxar (“to pull”) + -ão → puxão (“a strong or violent pull”)",
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"text": "pisar (“to step”) + -ão → pisão (“a strong or violent step”)",
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"text": "cagar (“to shit”) + -ão → cagão (“someone who shits upon something, a coward”)",
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"text": "mijar (“to piss”) + -ão → mijão (“someone who wets themselves”)",
"type": "example"
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"text": "arregar (“to back off”) + -ão → arregão (“someone who backs off from a challenge, a quitter”)",
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"text": "cinco (“five”) + -ão → cincão (“five bucks”)",
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"text": "mil (“thousand”) + -ão → milzão (“a thousand bucks”)",
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"text": "vila (“village”) + -ão → vilão (“villager”)",
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"text": "cidade (“city”) + -ão → cidadão (“citizen”)",
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"text": "Beira (“a region in Portugal”) + -ão → beirão (“relating to Beira”, “someone from Beira”)",
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"-on (forming nouns denoting subatomic particles)"
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"text": "falar (“to speak”) + -ão → falarão (“(they) will speak”)",
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"text": "comer (“to eat”) + -ão → comerão (“(they) will eat”)",
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{
"text": "sorrir (“to smile”) + -ão → sorrirão (“(they) will smile”)",
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{
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{
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},
"expansion": "Latin habent",
"name": "der"
},
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"2": "habeō",
"t": "to have"
},
"expansion": "habeō (“to have”)",
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Galician-Portuguese -an, from an (modern Portuguese: hão) from Latin habent, third-person plural present indicative of habeō (“to have”).",
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{
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{
"text": "falar (“to speak”) + -ão → falarão (“(they) will speak”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "comer (“to eat”) + -ão → comerão (“(they) will eat”)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "sorrir (“to smile”) + -ão → sorrirão (“(they) will smile”)",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"forms the third-person plural future indicative, from the infinitive of verbs"
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɐ̃w̃/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈɐ̃ʊ̯̃]",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɐ̃w̃/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɐ̃w̃"
}
],
"synonyms": [
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"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "-aõ"
},
{
"tags": [
"after words stressed on the last syllable",
"especially"
],
"word": "-zão"
}
],
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}
{
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"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese suffixes",
"Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Portuguese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Portuguese verb-forming suffixes"
],
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"Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of -am. , now a common misspelling"
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"-am",
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"Brazil"
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"ipa": "[ɐ̃ʊ̯̃]",
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"Brazil"
]
},
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"ipa": "/ɐ̃w̃/",
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"ipa": "/ɐ̃w̃/"
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