segurança

Meaning

  1. (feminine) security; safety (condition of not being threatened)
  2. (broadly,feminine) any object related to the safety of something or some place
  3. (broadly,feminine) any object related to the safety of something or some place
  4. (feminine) certainty; trust
  5. (feminine,rare) the act of holding or sustaining
  6. (feminine) the pregnancy of quadrupedals

Frequency

A1
Hyphenated as
se‧gu‧ran‧ça
Pronounced as (IPA)
/se.ɡuˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese segurança. By surface analysis, segurar (“to hold; to secure”) + -ança.

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