-ão

Meaning

  1. (masculine, morpheme) forms the augmentative of nouns
  2. (masculine, morpheme) forms the augmentative of nouns
  3. (masculine, morpheme) forms the augmentative of nouns
  4. (masculine, morpheme) forms the augmentative of nouns
  5. (masculine, morpheme) forms the masculine of animal names (whether the animal refers to females or to males and females)
  6. (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
  7. (masculine, morpheme, slang) forms nouns, from a numeral X divisible by ten and greater than thirty, meaning “someone in his Xs”
  8. (masculine, morpheme) forms nouns, from a verb X, meaning a strong or violent instance of doing X
  9. (derogatory, informal, masculine, morpheme) forms nouns, from a verb X, meaning an agent of such verb
  10. (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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