respondéncia

Macanese

Alternative forms

• respondência

Etymology

From a merger of Portuguese correspondência and archaic Portuguese respondência (“commercial profit”), from Latin respondentia.

Noun

respondéncia

1. (finance) interest, yield

   Su sapeca têm respondéncia

   His money earns interest

2. (possibly dated) air current

   Eu nã gosto respondência

   I don't like the air current

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
• https://dicionario.priberam.org/respond%C3%AAncia
• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “respôndencia”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 62