cidadão
Meaning
- (masculine) citizen
- (masculine) citizen
- (informal,masculine) individual, person
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ci‧da‧dão
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/si.daˈdɐ̃w̃/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cidadão. By surface analysis, cidade (“city”) + -ão (“-an”). Compare Galician cidadán and Spanish ciudadano.
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