Galician edit

Etymology edit

Attested since circa 1300. From alongar (to lengthen) +‎ -mento.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

alongamento m (plural alongamentos)

  1. an instance of lengthening (making or becoming longer)
  2. stretching (form of physical exercise)
  3. (phonetics) lengthening (sound change in which a phoneme becomes long)
  4. (archaic) delay
    • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 238:
      Desy gisárõsse ben de quanto mester auj́ã et, sen outro alongamento, forõ buscar al rrey Cástor et el rrey Polus
      first they outfitted themselves with everything they needed and, without further delay, they went searching for king Castor and king Pollux

References edit

  • alongamento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • alongamento” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • alongamento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • alongamento” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From alongar (to lengthen) +‎ -mento.

Pronunciation edit

 

  • Hyphenation: a‧lon‧ga‧men‧to

Noun edit

alongamento m (plural alongamentos)

  1. an instance of lengthening (making or becoming longer)
  2. stretching (form of physical exercise)
  3. (phonetics) lengthening (sound change in which a phoneme becomes long)
  4. allonge (slip of paper attached to a document that is out of space)
    Synonym: alongue

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