chão
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
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Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin plānum (“level ground”, noun), from plānus (“flat”, adjective).
Noun edit
chão m (plural chãos)
- ground, floor
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 236 (facsimile):
- Como hũa moller que perigoóu no mar. ⁊ tragia un fillo pequeno nos braços. ⁊ fezea ſanta maria per címa das aguas andar de pé aſſi como ẏria per un muí bon chão.
- How a woman who sank in the sea. And had a small child in her arms. And Holy Mary brought her over the water to walk as she would in a good floor.
- Como hũa moller que perigoóu no mar. ⁊ tragia un fillo pequeno nos braços. ⁊ fezea ſanta maria per címa das aguas andar de pé aſſi como ẏria per un muí bon chão.
- flatland, plain
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Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Latin plānus (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Adjective edit
chão (plural chãos, feminine chãa, feminine plural chãas)
- flat, smooth
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, 325 cantiga Cantiga 325 (facsimile):
- Pois a Catiua eſperta. / foi achouſſ en űu camỹo / ancho ⁊ chão ſen pedras / ⁊ andou o mui feſtỹno
- So the smart captive / went and found herself in a path, / ample and flat, without rocks, / and walked through it very quickly.
- Pois a Catiua eſperta. / foi achouſſ en űu camỹo / ancho ⁊ chão ſen pedras / ⁊ andou o mui feſtỹno
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- tchão (eye dialect, North Portugal)
- cham, chaõ (obsolete)
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: chão
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chão (“ground”), from Latin plānum (“level ground”) < plānus, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Compare Galician chan and Spanish llano. Doublet of plano, porão, piano, and flete.
Noun edit
chão m (plural chãos)
- ground, soil, earth
- floor
- (poetic) land
- Synonym: terra
- Este é o nosso chão. ― This is our land.
- (geography, obsolete) plain
- Synonym: chã
- (Brazil, informal) a period of time between the present and a future event
- Synonym: tempo
- Ainda tem um chão até o dia de eu me mudar. ― There is still some time until the day I will move.
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Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chão (“flat, smooth”), from Latin plānus. Doublet of plano, piano, lhano, and flat
Adjective edit
chão (feminine chã, masculine plural chãos, feminine plural chãs)
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Vietnamese edit
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(classifier sợi) chão • (, )
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- (in compounds) frog
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