cremação
Meaning
cremation (burning of a body)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cre‧ma‧ção
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɾe.maˈsɐ̃w̃/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cremātiōnem. Compare queimação, possibly an inherited doublet. By surface analysis, cremar + -ção.
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