acidente
See also: açidente
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin accidentem, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”); respectively from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”) and *ḱad- (“to fall”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: a‧ci‧den‧te
Noun edit
acidente m (plural acidentes)
- accident (unexpected event with negative consequences)
- Synonyms: catástrofe, desastre
- (geology) accident (irregular surface)