bênção

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== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === benção (dialectal, also a common misspelling) bença (colloquial) beiçom, bençom (dialectal) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bẽeiçon, from beençon (which yielded benção), from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin benedictiōnem (“blessing; benediction”), from benedictus, from Latin benedīcō. The plural in -ãos was formed by analogy with other paroxytones in -ão. Doublet of bendição, a later semi-learned borrowing. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: bên‧ção === Noun === bênção f (plural bênçãos or (rare, nonstandard) bênções) benediction, blessing Synonym: bendição Antonym: maldição grace Synonym: graça ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Macanese: bênça → Konkani: बेंसांव (beusāuva) === Further reading === “bênção”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “bênção”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026