preguiça
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese pegriça, from Latin pigritia. Cognate with Italian pigrizia, Spanish pereza, French paresse.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾɛ.ˈɡi.sa/
Noun[edit]
preguiça f (plural preguiças)
- laziness; sloth (unwillingness to do work)
- Synonyms: ócio, ociosidade, vadiagem
- Antonym: diligência
- (Christianity) sloth (deadly sin)
- (zoology) sloth (mammal)
- Synonym: bicho-preguiça
Derived terms[edit]
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Christianity
- pt:Zoology
- pt:Anteaters and sloths