pundonor

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pundonor (“point of honour”), from Catalan punt d'honor.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pũ.doˈnoʁ/ [pũ.doˈnoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pũ.doˈnoʁ/ [pũ.doˈnoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /pũ.doˈnoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /pũ.doˈnoʁ/ [pũ.doˈnoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pũ.doˈnoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pũ.duˈnoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pũ.duˈnoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pũ.duˈno.ɾi/

Noun

pundonor m or f by sense (plural pundonores)

1. honour, pride
   • 1914, David Lloyd George, A Guerra Europea, Harrison and Sons, page 2:

     […] de que só a poderiamos ter evitado sacrificando a pundonor nacional.

     […] that we could not have avoided it without national dishonour.

     (literally, “ […] that we could have only avoid sacrificing the national honour.”)

References

• “pundonor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “pundonor” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan punt d'honor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pundoˈnoɾ/ [pũn̪.d̪oˈnoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: pun‧do‧nor

Noun

pundonor m (plural pundonores)

1. self-respect, amour propre

Derived terms

• pundonoroso

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: pundonor

Further reading

• “pundonor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014