pranto
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese pranto, planto, an early borrowing from Latin planctus (“wailing, lamentation”). Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese chanto (compare also Spanish llanto).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɾɐ̃.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɾɐ̃.to/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpɾɐ̃.tu/
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃tu
- Hyphenation: pran‧to
Noun
pranto m (plural prantos)
- mourning
- crying, lamentation, sorrow
- Synonyms: lamentação, queixume, choro
- (by extension) tears
- Synonym: lágrimas
Further reading
- “pranto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “pranto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026