"-ção" meaning in Portuguese

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          "expansion": "→ Konkani: -सांव (-sāuva)",
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      "text": "→ Konkani: -सांव (-sāuva)"
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        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
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        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
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      "name": "inh"
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      "form": "-ções",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "suffix",
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          "parents": [],
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          "kind": "other",
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          "kind": "other",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "comercializar (“to commercialize”) + -ção → comercialização (“commercialization”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "esterilizar (“to sterilize”) + -ção → esterilização (“sterilization”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "diluir (“to dilute”) + -ção → diluição (“dilution”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "perseguir (“to pursue”) + -ção → perseguição (“pursuit”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "compor (“to compose”) + -ção → composição (“composition”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "-tion"
      ],
      "id": "en--ção-pt-suffix-4opdQYQw",
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        [
          "-tion",
          "-tion"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "-mento"
        }
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        "morpheme"
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      "ipa": "/ˈsɐ̃w̃/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɐ̃w̃/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sõw/",
      "tags": [
        "Northern",
        "Portugal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ção"
}

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      "text": "→ Konkani: -सांव (-sāuva)"
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        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
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      },
      "expansion": "Latin -tiōnem",
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      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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          "type": "example"
        },
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          "text": "esterilizar (“to sterilize”) + -ção → esterilização (“sterilization”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "diluir (“to dilute”) + -ção → diluição (“dilution”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "perseguir (“to pursue”) + -ção → perseguição (“pursuit”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "compor (“to compose”) + -ção → composição (“composition”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        "-tion"
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          "-tion",
          "-tion"
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        }
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        "morpheme"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/ˈsɐ̃w̃/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɐ̃w̃/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sõw/",
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        "Northern",
        "Portugal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ção"
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: noun-forming suffix",
  "path": [
    "-ção"
  ],
  "section": "Portuguese",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "-ção",
  "trace": ""
}