Feminine

locução

Meaning

  1. (countable, feminine) articulation (the quality, clarity or sharpness of speech)
  2. (broadly, countable, feminine) locution (style of discourse or usage, or any particular utterance in such style)
  3. (Portugal, broadly, countable, feminine) expression (a particular way of phrasing an idea)
  4. (broadly, countable, feminine) phrase (group of words that functions as a single unit)
  5. (Brazil, broadly, countable, feminine, rare) syntagma (a constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit)
  6. (countable, feminine) voice-over
  7. (Brazil, countable, feminine) The act of speaking into a microphone.
  8. (Brazil, broadly, feminine, uncountable) elocution (the art of speaking, especially public speaking, with expert control of gesture and voice, diction and usage)
  9. (countable, feminine) A swell box shutter.

Concepts

phrase
expression
locution
idiom
saying
proverb
old saw
collocation
figure of speech
maxim
phrasal
Synonyms

expressão
B2
ditado
C1
idioma
C2
provérbio
20k

expressão idiomática

Translations

locución
locution
locuzione
expression
locució
Redewendung
espressione

locucion

sentence
proverbe
dicton
Spruch

φράση

Redensart
Rede
Pronounced as (IPA)
/lo.kuˈsɐ̃w̃/
Etymology

Borrowed from Latin
locūtiō
In summary

Borrowed from Latin locūtiōnem.

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