apólice

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French police and agglutinated with the definite article a (“the”). The French term comes from Italian polizza, from Medieval Latin apodissa (“receipt for money”), from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis, “proof, declaration”)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.li.si/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.li.si/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.li.se/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈpɔ.li.sɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔlisi, (Portugal) -ɔlisɨ
• Hyphenation: a‧pó‧li‧ce

Noun

apólice f (plural apólices)

1. policy (a contract of insurance)

Descendants

• → Tetum: apólise

Further reading

• “apólice”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “apólice”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025