facção
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin factiōnem. Compare the inherited doublet feição (“aspect, feature”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: fac‧ção
Audio (BR) (file)
Noun edit
facção f (plural facções) (Brazilian spelling, superseded in European Portuguese)
- faction (group of people)
- (politics) a subdivision of a political party
- (religion) sect
- Synonym: seita
- Clipping of facção criminosa.
Meronyms edit
- (faction): pessoa, indivíduo
- (subdivision of political party): político
- (sect): religioso, fiel, crente