clã
Portuguese
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French clan. Doublet of planta.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɐ̃
- Hyphenation: clã
Noun
[edit]clã m (plural clãs)
- (ethnography) clan (group of closely interrelated families, especially among Gaelic-speaking peoples)
- (anthropology) clan (intermediate group between family and tribe, whose members consider themselves descendants of the same ancestor, often of a mythical nature and symbolized by a totem)
- (figuratively) clan, family (family group united by a strong spirit of solidarity)
- (figuratively) clan, family (group with an exclusivist tendency, united by strong bonds and/or common interests)
- (figuratively) faction, party
Further reading
[edit]- “clã”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “clã”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Categories:
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleh₂-
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese terms derived from Scottish Gaelic
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Irish
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Welsh
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms borrowed from French
- Portuguese terms derived from French
- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese 1-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃/1 syllable
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Ethnography
- pt:Anthropology