doença
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese doença, from Latin dolentia, from dolēns (“suffering”). By surface analysis, doer (“to hurt”) + -ença.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: do‧en‧ça
Noun
[edit]doença f (plural doenças)
- illness; disease; ailment (an abnormal medical condition)
- Synonyms: enfermidade, (only in names) mal; moléstia, maladia
- (uncountable) illness; disease (a state of bad health)
- Synonym: enfermidade
- (figurative) illness; disease (abnormal condition or attitude)
Derived terms
[edit]- doença celíaca
- doença da vaca louca
- doença das alturas
- doença das montanhas
- doença de Addison
- doença de Alpers
- doença de Alzheimer
- doença de Andersen
- doença de Aujeszky
- doença de Behçet
- doença de Chagas
- doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob
- doença de Lyme
- doença de Newcastle
- doença de Parkinson
- doença do carrapato
- doença do sono
- doença sexualmente transmitida
- doença venérea
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “doença”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -ença
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- pt:Diseases