Feminine
mágoa
- (feminine) grief; sorrow
- (feminine) resentment
- (feminine) grievance
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈma.ɡwɐ/
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin macula (“stain, fault”), showing preservation of word-internal -u-, lost early in the inherited doublet malha and mancha. Doublet of mancha, malha, mangra, and mácula.
terpena
Ferida
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