conivência

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnīventia.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.niˈvẽ.si.ɐ/ [ko.niˈvẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ko.niˈvẽ.sjɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.niˈvẽ.si.ɐ/ [ko.niˈvẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ko.niˈvẽ.sjɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.niˈvẽ.si.a/ [ko.niˈvẽ.sɪ.a], (faster pronunciation) /ko.niˈvẽ.sja/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.niˈvẽ.sjɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.niˈvẽ.sjɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.niˈbẽ.sjɐ/ [ku.niˈβẽ.sjɐ]

• Rhymes: -ẽsjɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧ni‧vên‧ci‧a

Noun

conivência f (plural conivências)

1. connivance (act, quality or condition of what is complicit)
2. complicity (material or moral collaboration in a crime)
3. complicity (attitude of someone who refrains from preventing a crime, an infraction, etc.)
4. leniency (defective compromise, failure, etc.)
5. (botany) convergence (approximation, at the apex, of plant structures that remain free at the base)

Further reading

• “conivência”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “conivência”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024