revolução

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin revolūtiōnem, from Latin revolvō.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.vo.luˈsɐ̃w̃/ [he.vo.luˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.vo.luˈsɐ̃w̃/ [he.vo.luˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.vo.luˈsɐ̃w̃/ [χe.vo.luˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.vu.luˈsɐ̃w̃/, (with elision) /ʁɨ.vluˈsɐ̃w̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.vu.luˈsɐ̃w̃/, (with elision) /ʁɨ.vluˈsɐ̃w̃/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.bu.luˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ʁɨ.βu.luˈsɐ̃w̃], (with elision) /ʁɨ.bluˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ʁɨ.βluˈsɐ̃w̃]

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: re‧vo‧lu‧ção

Noun

revolução f (plural revoluções)

1. revolution (act or effect of revolutionizing, of causing profound change in)
2. (astronomy) revolution (translational movement of one star in relation to another)
3. (astronomy) revolution (return of a star to a point in its own orbit)
4. (mathematics) revolution (full turn rotation, in a plane, around a point)
5. revolution (movement around an axis; circular motion)
6. revolution (full turn; spin, rotation)
7. (politics) revolution (insurrectionary movement against established power)
8. (politics) revolution (set of sudden and profound changes in the political, economic, social and institutional structures of a community, generally imposed violently)
9. (figuratively) any sudden and profound change
10. (figuratively) agitation, disorder
11. nausea; disgust

Related terms

• revolver

Further reading

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