-dade

• -idade

From Old Galician-Portuguese -dade, from Latin -tātem, from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ad͡ʒi, (Portugal) -adɨ
• Hyphenation: -da‧de

-dade f (noun-forming suffix, plural -dades)

1. 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
2. used to form other nouns, especially abstract nouns

• “-dade”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “-dade”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026