comunidade

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin commūnitās, commūnitātem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komuniˈdade/ [ko.mũ.niˈð̞a.ð̞ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ade
• Hyphenation: co‧mu‧ni‧da‧de

Noun

comunidade f (plural comunidades)

1. community

Further reading

• “comunidade”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• communidade (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commūnitātem, from commūnis (“common; public”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.mu.niˈda.d͡ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.mu.niˈda.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.mu.niˈda.de/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.mu.niˈda.dɨ/ [ku.mu.niˈða.ðɨ]

• Hyphenation: co‧mu‧ni‧da‧de

Noun

comunidade f (plural comunidades)

1. community (group sharing a common understanding)
2. community (condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common)
3. (ecology) community (group of organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other)

   Synonym: biocenose

4. (Brazil, euphemistic) a poor neighbourhood; a favela

Derived terms

• comunidadezinha (diminutive)
• Comunidade Europeia

Related terms

• comum
• comunião
• comunicar
• comunitário
• comunitariedade
• comunizar

Further reading

• “comunidade” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913