doença
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese doença, from Latin dolentia, from dolēns (“suffering”). By surface analysis, doer (“to hurt”) + -ença.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: do‧en‧ça
Noun[edit]
doença f (plural doenças)
- illness; disease; ailment (an abnormal medical condition)
- Synonyms: enfermidade, (only in names) mal; moléstia, maladia
- (uncountable) illness; disease (a state of bad health)
- Synonym: enfermidade
- (figurative) illness; disease (abnormal condition or attitude)
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Further reading[edit]
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -ença
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- pt:Diseases