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Where does “mẽaça” come from?

mẽaça (Old Portuguese) comes from Latin minācia, from Latin mināx, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

mẽaça (Old Portuguese): threat

Definitions

  1. threat

Ancestry of “mẽaça”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinminācia—
2Latinmināx—
3Latin-āx—
4Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
5Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
6Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
7Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

Words derived from “mẽaça”

  • ameaçar
  • ameaçador
  • ameaça
  • amẽaçar
  • mẽaçar
  • amẽaça
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