seleção

Significado (Inglés)

1. (feminine) selection (the process or act of selecting)
2. (feminine) selection (the elements which are chosen in a selection)
3. (feminine) national sports team
4. (broadly, colloquial, feminine) dream team (a sports team that is considered the best)
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, feminine) ellipsis of seleção natural (“natural selection”)

Sinónimos

selecção

escolha

gama

Traducións

selection

selección

sélection

selezione

Auswahl

choice

selecció

choix

pick

⛏️

Auslese

scelta

Nominierung

Sichtung

Wahl

Markierung

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/se.leˈsɐ̃w̃/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Tomado de latín: sēlēctiō

In summary

Learned borrowing from Latin sēlēctiōnem (“selection”), from sēlēctus (“selected”), past participle of sēligō (“to select; to cull”).
The sense “national team” is from the idea that a national team is formed by a selection of a country’s best sportsmen.