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-dade
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Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese -dade, from Latin -tātem, from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-dade f (noun-forming suffix, plural -dades)
- Used to form a noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description.
- Used to form other nouns, especially abstract nouns.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “-dade”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “-dade”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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