acidente

See also: açidente

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.siˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.siˈdẽ.te/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.siˈdẽ.tɨ/ [ɐ.siˈðẽ.tɨ]

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  • Rhymes: -ẽti
  • Hyphenation: a‧ci‧den‧te

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin accidentem, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”); respectively from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”) and *ḱad- (“to fall”).

Noun

acidente m (plural acidentes)

  1. accident (unexpected event with negative consequences)
    Synonyms: catástrofe, desastre
  2. (geology) accident (irregular surface)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

acidente

  1. inflection of acidentar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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