Feminine

preguiça

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (feminine) laziness; sloth (unwillingness to do work)
  2. (feminine) sloth (any animal in the suborder Folivora)

Opposite of
diligência
Synonyms

Bicho-Preguiça

Bicho-preguiça

mandrice

mândria

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɾeˈɡi.sɐ/
Etymology

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese pegriça, from Latin pigritia. Cognate with Italian pigrizia, Spanish pereza, French paresse.

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