acidente
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See also: açidente
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: a‧ci‧den‧te
Noun[edit]
acidente m (plural acidentes)
- accident (unexpected event with negative consequences)
- Synonyms: catástrofe, desastre
- (geology) accident (irregular surface)
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Further reading[edit]
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