lição

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• licção (pre-reform spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese liçon, from Latin lēctiōnem.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /liˈsɐ̃w̃/ [liˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /liˈsɐ̃w̃/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: li‧ção

Noun

lição f (plural lições)

1. lesson (section of learning or teaching)
2. lesson (something learned)
3. lesson (something that serves as a warning or encouragement)
   1. (figurative) punishment

      Synonym: castigo

      • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Sinha Victoria [Victoria]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 65:

        Se vendesse as gallinhas e a marrã? Infelizmente a excommungada raposa tinha comido a pedrez, a mais gorda. Precisava dar uma licção á raposa. Ia armar o mundeo junto do poleiro e quebrar o espinhaço daquella semvergonha.

        What if she sold the chickens and the young sow? Unfortunately the damned fox had eaten the spotted hen, the plumpest one. She had to teach the fox a lesson. She was going to set up a trap by the perch and break that rascal's back.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lição.

Related terms

• ler
• lecionar

Descendants

• → Konkani: लिसांव (lisāuva)

Further reading

• “lição” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913