sugestão

Galician

Noun

sugestão f (plural sugestões, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of suxestión

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin suggestiōnem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /su.ʒesˈtɐ̃w̃/ [su.ʒesˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /su.ʒesˈtɐ̃w̃/ [su.ʒesˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /su.ʒeʃˈtɐ̃w̃/ [su.ʒeʃˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /su.ʒɨʃˈtɐ̃w̃/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: su‧ges‧tão

Noun

sugestão f (plural sugestões)

1. suggestion (act or effect of suggesting)
2. proposal (that which is suggested)
3. inspiration, stimulus
4. insinuation (something that is implied)
5. (psychology) hypnotism (process by which one's decision-making power is controlled)

Related terms

(verbs):

• sugerir

Further reading

• “sugestão”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “sugestão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025