capitão
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese capitan, capitam, from Genoese Ligurian capitan, from Late Latin capitānus, from capitāneus, or from Latin capitālis.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
capitão m (plural capitães, feminine capitã or capitoa, feminine plural capitãs or capitoas)
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208
Further reading edit
- “capitão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913