ad hoc
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6 characters
Language
Portuguese
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ad hoc is aPortuguesephrase. It means: locução latina, usada sobretudo no meio jurídico e acadêmico, significando que uma pessoa ou situação age ou ocorre em um determinado ato, e apenas naquele caso, sem que seja a pessoa ou fato previ... Pronounced /ˈad ˈɔk/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ad hoc |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈad ˈɔk/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ad hoc is 6 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈad ˈɔk/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ad hoc in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is ad hoc, spelled A-D- -H-O-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1locução latina, usada sobretudo no meio jurídico e acadêmico, significando que uma pessoa ou situação age ou ocorre em um determinado ato, e apenas naquele caso, sem que seja a pessoa ou fato previsto legalmente (como v. g.: advogado ad hoc, secretário ad hoc, domicílio ad hoc, etc.)
- 2hipótese que, sem ter comprovação, é usada para validar ou completar uma tese
- 3qualificador de regra, norma ou enunciado cujo uso dá-se em determinado caso, não se aplicando a outros
- 4termo comumente utilizado para designar sistemas de rede, de funcionamento de programas, etc., que servem para uma finalidade restrita e específica
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