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