assentamento
Portuguese
Etymology
From assentar (“to settle”) + -mento.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.sẽ.taˈmẽ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.sẽ.taˈmẽ.to/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.sẽ.tɐˈmẽ.tu/
- Hyphenation: as‧sen‧ta‧men‧to
Noun
assentamento m (plural assentamentos)
- settlement (a colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled)
Further reading
- “assentamento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “assentamento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026