vergonha

vergonha f (plural vergonhas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of vergoña

• “vergonha” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• vergonja (Auvergne, Languedoc)
• vergougno (Mistralian)

Inherited from Old Occitan vergọnha, vergọnja f (attested since the 12th c.), from Vulgar Latin *verecunnia f, from Latin verēcundia f.

Compare Catalan vergonya f, Portuguese vergonha f, French vergogne f.

• IPA^(key): [berˈɣuɲo]

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vergonha f (plural vergonhas)

1. shame
2. French government policies that disparage and marginalize non-French languages

• aver vergonha (“be ashamed”)
• avergonhar
• en vergonha (“ashamed”)
• far vergonha (“to embarrass, disgrace”)
• portar vergonha (“to embarrass, disgrace”)
• vergonhós (“shamful”)
• virar la vergonha darrièr lo cotet (“to reject one's shame”)

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 726.
• DOM en ligne Dictionnaire de l'Occitan Médiéval
• Lexic occitan medieval

• vergonça (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vergonna (displacing collateral form vergonça, compare Spanish vergüenza), from Vulgar Latin *verecunnia, from the Latin verēcundia. Compare French vergogne, Catalan vergonya. Doublet of verecúndia.

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• Rhymes: -oɲɐ
• Hyphenation: ver‧go‧nha

vergonha f (plural vergonhas)

1. shame

   Synonym: ignomínia

• Macanese: vegónha, vegônha

• “vergonha” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “vergonha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “vergonha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025