Noun: benção
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | benção |
| Plural f | benções; bençãos |
Sample Sentences
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[…] poꝛ dar nome aquella tę́rra per elle nóuamente acháda: mãdou aruoꝛar hũa cruz muy grãde no mais alto lugar de hũa áruoꝛe ⁊ ao pę della ſe diſſe miſſa. A qual foy póſta com ſolennidade de benções dos ſacerdótes: dando eſte nome á tęrra, Sancta cruz. ([…] for giving name to that land newly discovered by him, he ordered a very large Cross to be raised at the highest point of a tree, and at its foot a Mass was said, which was conducted with solemn Priestly blessings, giving the land the name Santa Cruz [Holy Cross].) [1552, João de Barros, chapter II, in Aſia de Joam de Barros [João de Barros’s Asia], 1st edition, volume V, Lisbon: Germão Galharde, page 56r:]
Nouns inflected like benção
benção,
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese beençon.
Verbs referencing "benção"
Galician Nouns
beizón.
Translations