acidente

See also: açidente

Portuguese

acidente

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin accidentem, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”); respectively from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”) and *ḱad- (“to fall”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.siˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.siˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.siˈdẽ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.siˈdẽ.tɨ/ [ɐ.siˈðẽ.tɨ]

• Hyphenation: a‧ci‧den‧te

Noun

acidente m (plural acidentes)

1. accident (unexpected event with negative consequences)

   Synonyms: catástrofe, desastre

2. (geology) accident (irregular surface)

Related terms

• acidentação
• acidentado
• acidental
• acidentar

 

Further reading

• “acidente”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024