-ão
Meaning
- (masculine, morpheme) forms the augmentative of nouns
- (masculine, morpheme) forms the augmentative of nouns
- (masculine, morpheme) forms the augmentative of nouns
- (masculine, morpheme) forms the augmentative of nouns
- (masculine, morpheme) forms the masculine of animal names (whether the animal refers to females or to males and females)
- (masculine, morpheme) forms nouns, from nouns, denoting an item of the same class as the suffixed noun, or which shares a characteristic with the suffixed noun
- (masculine, morpheme, slang) forms nouns, from a numeral X divisible by ten and greater than thirty, meaning “someone in his Xs”
- (masculine, morpheme) forms nouns, from a verb X, meaning a strong or violent instance of doing X
- (derogatory, informal, masculine, morpheme) forms nouns, from a verb X, meaning an agent of such verb
- (Brazil, masculine, morpheme, slang) forms nouns, from a numeral X, meaning “X amount of money” or “a bill worth X”
Opposite of
-inho, -ito, -culo, -ete
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɐ̃w̃/
Etymology
In summary
From Old Galician-Portuguese -on, from Latin -ōnem. Akin to Spanish -ón, Italian -one and French -on, compare Romanian -oi.
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