crescimento
Portuguese
Etymology
From crescer (“to grow”) + -mento. Cognate with Galician crecemento, Spanish crecimiento.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kɾe.siˈmẽ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kɾe.siˈmẽ.to/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /kɾɨʃ.siˈmẽ.tu/, /kɾɨ.ʃiˈmẽ.tu/
- Hyphenation: cres‧ci‧men‧to
Noun
crescimento m (uncountable)
- growth (an increase in size, number, value, or strength)
- Synonym: aumento
- Antonym: decrescimento
Related terms
Further reading
- “crescimento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “crescimento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026