cadeia – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of cadeia

Noun: cadeia
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fcadeia
Plural fcadeias

Sample Sentences

  • Então, veja, para ficar muito claro, eu acho que se alguém roubar deve ir para a cadeia sendo do PT ou não sendo do PT, sendo católico ou evangélico, sabe? (Listen, let me be crystal clear: I think if someone steals, they should go to jail, whether they’re PT or not, whether they’re Catholic or evangelical, you know?) [2019 May 22, Glenn Greenwald, quoting Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, “Glenn Greenwald entrevista Lula: ‘Bolsonaro é a velha política, eu sou a nova’”, in The Intercept:]
  • cadeia montanhosa (mountain chain)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cadea, from Latin catēna, from Proto-Italic *katesnā. Compare Galician cadea, Spanish cadena, and English chain. Doublet of the direct borrowing catena. See: Galician Nouns 'cadea', Spanish Nouns 'cadena', English Nouns 'chain'.

Verbs referencing "cadeia"

Galician Nouns cadea.

Translations