questão

• questaõ (obsolete)
• questam (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin quaestiōnem (“inquiry; question”).

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: ques‧tão

questão f (plural questões)

2. question (phrase asking for information)

   Synonym: (less formal) pergunta

4. question (a request for an answer in a test)

   Synonym: pergunta

6. matter; issue (a point in debate or controversy)

   Synonyms: tema, problema

In the sense “phrase asking for information” questão and pergunta can be used synonymously, although questão has a somewhat more formal and legal tone, with additional meanings.^[1]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:questão.

• querer
• questionamento
• questionar
• questionário

• “questão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913