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Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin interpretātiōnem (interpretation; explanation). By surface analysis, interpretar +‎ -ção.

Pronunciation edit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.teʁ.pɾe.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.teh.pɾe.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ĩ.teɾ.pɾe.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.teɾ.pɾe.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ĩ.teʁ.pɾe.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.teχ.pɾe.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.teɻ.pɾe.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ĩ.teɻ.pɾe.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: in‧ter‧pre‧ta‧ção

Noun edit

interpretação f (plural interpretações)

  1. interpretation (act of interpreting)
  2. interpretation (sense given by an interpreter)
    Synonyms: explicação, esclarecimento
  3. (translation studies) interpretation (discipline of translating spoken language)
    Antonym: tradução
  4. (acting) an actor's theatrical performance of a character
    Synonyms: atuação, representação
  5. (music) a performance of music written by somebody else
  6. (computing) act of interpreting (running a program without compiling the source code)

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Further reading edit

  • interpretação” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913