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saudade

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(Anglès)

wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, yearning, longing; the feeling of missing something or someone

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/sawˈda.d͡ʒi/

Heretat de llatí

solitas

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese soydade, from Latin sōlitātem (“solitude”). The modern saudade may owe its irregular development to one or more of the following factors: * Analogy with Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “melancholy”, literally “black bile”) * Learned hypercorrection; compare the 'vulgar' coisa alongside the Latinism causa * Analogy with words such as saudar (“to wish good health”) or the archaic saudade ("salvation" < *salūtātem)