timão

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃ Homophone: Timão Hyphenation: ti‧mão === Etymology 1 === From Old Galician-Portuguese timon, from Late Latin tīmōnem, alteration of Classical Latin tēmōnem. ==== Alternative forms ==== temão ==== Noun ==== timão m (plural timões) shaft (for hitching, coupling, yoking, harnessing), plough-beam, draft-pole, tongue (of a cart) Synonym: apo (nautical) helm; ship's wheel (nautical) rudder Synonym: leme (figurative) helm === Etymology 2 === From time (“team”) +‎ -ão. ==== Noun ==== timão m (plural timões) (Brazil) augmentative of time === Further reading === “timão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “timão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026