pensamento

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese penssamento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from penssar (“to think”) + -mento, from Latin pēnsāre, present active infinitive of pēnsō (“I ponder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pensaˈmentʊ]

Noun

pensamento m (plural pensamentos)

1. a thought; an idea

   Synonym: idea

2. (uncountable) thinking (process by which thoughts arise)
3. ideology (beliefs and principle of a group)

   Synonym: ideoloxía

4. garden pansy

References

• “penssamento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pensamento” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pensamento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pensamento” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pensamento” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese penssamento, from penssar (“to think”) + -mento, from Latin pēnsāre (“to ponder”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pẽ.saˈmẽ.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pẽ.saˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pẽ.saˈmẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pẽ.sɐˈmẽ.tu/

• Hyphenation: pen‧sa‧men‧to

Noun

pensamento m (plural pensamentos)

1. a thought; an idea

   Synonym: ideia

2. (uncountable) thinking (process by which thoughts arise)

   Synonym: reflexão

3. ideology (beliefs and principle of a group)

   Synonym: ideologia

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pensamento.

Related terms

• pensação
• pensado
• pensador
• pensadouro
• pensamentear
• pensante
• pensar
• pensativamente
• pensatividade
• pensativo
• pensável

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: pensaméntu