suporte
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From suportar (“to support”), from Old Galician-Portuguese soportar, from Latin supportāre (“to carry; to bear”).
Alternative forms
- supporte (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /suˈpɔʁ.t͡ʃi/ [suˈpɔh.t͡ʃi]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /suˈpɔɾ.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /suˈpɔʁ.t͡ʃi/ [suˈpɔχ.t͡ʃi]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /suˈpɔɻ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /suˈpɔʁ.te/ [suˈpɔh.te]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /suˈpɔɾ.tɨ/
- Hyphenation: su‧por‧te
Noun
suporte m (plural suportes)
- support
- something which supports, either physically or figuratively
- Synonyms: apoio, base, escora, sustentação, sustentáculo
- help; aid
- Synonyms: ajuda, apoio, assistência
- answers and resolution of problems
- Synonym: assistência
- (heraldry) supporter
- something which supports, either physically or figuratively
Derived terms
Related terms
- insuportável
- suportabilidade
- suportação
- suportado
- suportal
- suportamento
- suportar
- suportável
- suportavelmente
Etymology 2
Verb
suporte
- inflection of suportar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “suporte”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “suporte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026