-ense

Meaning

1. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine, morpheme) forms the names of residents or inhabitants of a place
2. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine, morpheme) forms adjectives meaning “of or relating to [the suffixed place]”

Concepts

-er

Synonyms

-ão

-ês

-eiro

-enho

-ista

Translations

-er

-era

-er

-se

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈẽ.si/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin: -ēnsis

In summary

Learned borrowing from Latin -ēnsis (“originating in”). Compare the inherited doublet -ês.