câmbio
Portuguese
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese cambio, either directly from Late Latin cambium (“change”) or deverbal of cambiar (cf. Portuguese escambo), from Latin cambiāre (“to change”) , from a Celtic language, from Proto-Celtic *kamb- (“crooked; bent”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱamb-, *(s)kamb- (“bent”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: câm‧bi‧o
Noun
[edit]câmbio m (plural câmbios)
- exchange:
- act of exchanging or swapping; swap
- Synonyms: intercâmbio, permuta, troca
- (uncountable, economics, finance) currency exchange
- exchange rate
- taxa de câmbio
- act of exchanging or swapping; swap
- transformation (act of transforming or being transformed)
- Synonyms: alteração, cambiação, cambiagem, cambiamento, mudança, mutação, transformação
- commutation (substitution of one thing for another)
- Synonyms: comutação, substituição
- walkie-talkie (portable, bi-directional radio transceiver)
- Synonyms: walkie-talkie, rádio
- (economics, finance) agio
- (rare) change (the process of becoming different)
- Synonym: mudança
- (automotive) transmission (assembly of gears in an motorcar)
- Synonyms: marcha, transmissão
- (botany) cambium (layer of cells responsible for secondary growth of roots and stems)
Derived terms
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[edit]Interjection
[edit]câmbio
- (procedure word, military) over (end of sentence, ready to receive reply)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “câmbio”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “câmbio”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “câmbio”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “câmbio”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- Portuguese terms inherited from Late Latin
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- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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