Feminine

seleção

Meaning

(feminine) selection (the process or act of selecting)
(feminine) selection (the elements which are chosen in a selection)
(feminine) national sports team
(broadly, colloquial, feminine) dream team (a sports team that is considered the best)
(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, feminine) ellipsis of seleção natural (“natural selection”)

seçilen

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/se.leˈsɐ̃w̃/

Borrowed from Latin

sēlēctiō

In summary

Learned borrowing from Latin sēlēctiōnem (“selection”), from sēlēctus (“selected”), past participle of sēligō (“to select; to cull”). The sense “national team” is from the idea that a national team is formed by a selection of a country’s best sportsmen.

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