Noun: promessa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | promessa |
| Plural f | promessas |
Sample Sentences
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Os colonos foram às Américas com a promessa de uma vida nova. (The colonisers went to the Americas with the hope for a new life.)
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O vento forte indicava a promessa de chuva. (The strong wind indicated the likelihood of rain.)
Nouns inflected like promessa
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese promessa, from Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin prōmissa (“promise”), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“to send forth; to promise”). See: Latin Nouns '
prōmissum'.
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