sentença
Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sentença, from Latin sententia (“opinion; sentence”), from sentiō (“to feel, to perceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to head for, go”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /sẽˈtẽ.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /sẽˈtẽ.sa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /sẽˈtẽ.sɐ/
- Hyphenation: sen‧ten‧ça
Noun
sentença f (plural sentenças)
- (law) sentence (decision of a jury)
- Synonyms: decisão, deliberação, julgamento, veredito
- quote; proverb; maxim (a wise or classic saying)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:provérbio
- (archaic, grammar) sentence (grammatically complete series of words)
- Synonym: oração
Related terms
- sentenciação
- sentenciado
- sentenciador
- sentencial
- sentenciamento
- sentenciar
- sentenciosamente
- sentencioso
Further reading
- “sentença”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “sentença”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026