direção
Portuguese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin dīrēctiōnem.
Pronunciation
edit
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: di‧re‧ção
Noun
editdireção f (plural direções)
- direction, way
- 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 100:
- Ele estava indo naquela direção [...]
- He was going in that direction [...]
- Synonym: sentido
- driving (action of operating a motor vehicle)
- aula de direção
- driving lesson
- Synonym: condução
- (automotive) steering (something used to steer)
- direção hidráulica
- hydraulic steering
- (Brazil, automotive, by extension) steering wheel
- guidance, lead
- Synonym: orientação
- (film) direction, directing
- administration, board (a managing body)
- office or role in charge:
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “direcção” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “direção”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “direção”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
- Portuguese learned borrowings from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese terms with quotations
- Portuguese terms with usage examples
- pt:Automotive
- Brazilian Portuguese
- pt:Film genres
- pt:Business
- pt:Politics
- pt:Schools
- pt:Publishing
- pt:Auto parts