seleção
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- seleçaõ (obsolete, used up to the 19th century)
- selecçaõ (obsolete, used up to the 19th century)
- selecção (pre-1990 spelling)
Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin sēlēctiōnem (“selection”), from sēlēctus (“selected”), past participle of sēligō (“to select; to cull”).
The sense “national team” is from the idea that a national team is formed by a selection of a country’s best sportsmen.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: se‧le‧ção
Noun
[edit]seleção f (plural seleções)
- selection (the process or act of selecting)
- Synonym: escolha
- A seleção de animais para o abate.
- The selection of animals for slaughter.
- selection (the elements which are chosen in a selection)
- Vou ler uma seleção de livros.
- I will read a selection of books.
- (sports) a sports team that represents a region or organisation, such as a national sports team
- A seleção italiana de futebol venceu o torneio quatro vezes.
- The Italian national football team won tournament four times.
- (sports, colloquial, by extension) dream team (a sports team that is considered the best)
- (evolutionary theory) (natural) selection (a process by which certain beings are excluded from the chance of passing their genes to future generations)
- A seleção natural garantiu a sobrevivência dos homens.
- Natural selection guaranteed man’s survival.
Related terms
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- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leǵ-
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
- Portuguese learned borrowings from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese terms with usage examples
- pt:Sports
- Portuguese colloquialisms
- pt:Evolutionary theory