passamento
Portuguese
Etymology
From passar + -mento. Compare Catalan passament and Galician pasamento.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.saˈmẽ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.saˈmẽ.to/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐ.sɐˈmẽ.tu/
- Rhymes: -ẽtu
- Hyphenation: pas‧sa‧men‧to
Noun
passamento m (plural passamentos)
- death (act of passing from life to death)
- Synonym: falecimento
- agony
- Synonym: agonia
Further reading
- “passamento”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “passamento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025