batismo
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese batismo, bautismo, baptismo, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin and Late Latin baptismus, baptismum from Ancient Greek βαπτισμός (baptismós), from βαπτίζω (baptízō, “to immerse, to plunge”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /baˈt͡ʃiz.mu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /baˈt͡ʃiʒ.mu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /baˈt͡ʃiz.mo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /baˈtiʒ.mu/
- Hyphenation: ba‧tis‧mo
Noun
batismo m (plural batismos)
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants
- → Gujarati: બાપ્તિસ્મા (bāptismā)
- → Hindustani: (see there for further descendants)
- → Konkani: बातिज्म (bātijma)
- → Lao: ບັບຕິສະມາ (bap ti sa mā)
- → Lingala: batísimo
- → Malay: baptis
- Indonesian: baptis
- → Marathi: बाप्तिस्मा (bāptismā)
- → Thai: บัพติศมา (bạphtiṣ̄mā)
- →? Sinhalese: බව්තිස්ම (bawtisma), බෞතීස්මය (bautīsmaya)
Further reading
- “batismo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “batismo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “batismo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “batismo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026