segurança

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• segurãça

Etymology

segurar +‎ -ança.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ɡuˈɾan.t͡sa/

Noun

segurança f

1. securance, assurance, surety

Descendants

• Galician: seguranza
• Portuguese: segurança

Further reading

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “segurança”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “segurança”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “segurãça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese segurança. By surface analysis, segurar (“to hold; to secure”) +‎ -ança.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /se.ɡuˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/, /si.ɡuˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /se.ɡuˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/, /si.ɡuˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /se.ɡuˈɾɐ̃.sa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨ.ɡuˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/ [sɨ.ɣuˈɾɐ̃.sɐ]

• Hyphenation: se‧gu‧ran‧ça

Noun

segurança f (plural seguranças)

1. security; safety (condition of not being threatened)
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 127:

     A segurança está cem vezes mais rigorosa este verão.

     The security is a hundred times more severe this summer.

   Estas grades de ferro estão aqui para nossa segurança.

   These iron bars are here for our safety.

2. (by extension) any object related to the safety of something or some place
   1. (military) a set of devices designed to help avoid surprise attacks
3. certainty; trust

   Falou com segurança. ― He spoke with certainty.

4. (rare) the act of holding or sustaining
5. (zoology) the pregnancy of quadrupedals

Noun

segurança m or f by sense (plural seguranças)

1. watch; guard; doorman (person hired to ensure security or protect an individual, group or place)

   Há muitos seguranças neste estabelecimento.

   There are many guards in this building.