almoço

Meaning

Noun

lunch (meal eaten at noon)

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of almoçar

Hyphenated as

al‧mo‧ço

Pronounced as (IPA)

/awˈmo.su/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese almorço, from Latin admorsus or Vulgar Latin *admordium, in either case deriving from Latin admordeō (“to bite or gnaw at or into”). Compare Spanish almuerzo.

Sentences

Um homem está sentado em uma pedra quadrada comendo seu almoço .

A man is sitting on a square stone eating his lunch.