contenção
Portuguese
editPronunciation
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- Hyphenation: con‧ten‧ção
Etymology 1
editLearned borrowing from Latin contentiōnem.
Noun
editcontenção f (plural contenções)
- contention; struggle
- Synonym: contenda
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editNoun
editcontenção f (plural contenções)
- restrainment (the act of restraining)