legião
Appearance
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin legiōnem (“legion”). Doublet of Leão.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: le‧gi‧ão
Noun
[edit]legião f (plural legiões)
- (historical, military, Ancient Rome) legion (major unit or division of the Roman army)
- (military) legion (large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat)
- (figurative) legion (large number of people)
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 doublets
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese terms with historical senses
- pt:Military
- pt:Ancient Rome