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Where does “camarão” come from?

camarão (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese -ão, from Old Portuguese -ão, from Latin -ānus.

camarão (Portuguese): shrimp

Definitions

  1. shrimp

Ancestry of “camarão”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguese-ãoforms the augmentative of nouns; forms the...
2Old Portuguese-ão—
3Latin-ānus—

Words derived from “camarão”

  • Cameroon
  • Cameroonian
  • Kamtok
  • Cameroonianness
  • 喀麥隆
Every word from Latin -ānus →