Assunção

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Homophone: assunção
• Hyphenation: As‧sun‧ção

From assunção.

Assunção f

1. (Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) Assumption (the ascent of the Virgin Mary into Heaven)

Assunção ?

1. a surname

Calque of Spanish Asunción.

• Ascençam (obsolete)

Assunção f

1. Asunción (the capital city of Paraguay)
   • 1576, Pero de Magalhães Gândavo, chapter 1, in Hiſtoria da prouincia ſãcta Cruz a qui vulgarmẽte chamamos Brasil [History of the Holy Cross province, which we vulgarly call Brazil], Lisbon: Antonio Gonsaluez, page 10r:

     Duzentas & ſetẽta legoas por elle acima, eſtá edificada hũa Cidade pouoada de Caſtelhanos, que ſe chama Aſcençam.

     270 leagues upstream [the Río de la Plata], was built a city inhabited by Castillians, called Asunción.