balanço

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) swing (hanging seat)
2. (masculine) sway (swaying motion)
3. (informal,masculine) rhythm (variation of strong and weak elements of sounds)
4. (masculine) a scrupulous examination
5. (masculine) balance (list accounting for debits and credits)
6. (masculine) equilibrium (condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced)

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of balançar

Hyphenated as

ba‧lan‧ço

Pronounced as (IPA)

/baˈlɐ̃.su/

Etymology

From balança (“scales”), from Old Galician-Portuguese balança, from Late Latin bilancia, from Latin bilanx (“having two scales”), from bi- + lanx.

Sentences

Um menino está empurrando outro menino em um balanço .

A boy is pushing another boy on a swing.

Bebê amando sua primeira vez no balanço .

Baby loving her first time on the swing.

Os meninos balançam em um balanço verde fora de uma estrutura de madeira velha .

The boys swing on a green swing out of an old wooden frame.