facção
Portuguese
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin factiōnem. Compare the inherited doublet feição (“aspect, feature”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]facção f (plural facções) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling, superseded in European Portuguese)
- faction (group of people)
- (politics) a subdivision of a political party
- (religion) sect
- Synonym: seita
- Clipping of facção criminosa.
Meronyms
[edit]- (faction): pessoa, indivíduo
- (subdivision of political party): político
- (sect): religioso, fiel, crente
Holonyms
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