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-ância

Portuguese, suffix

-ância is a Portuguese feminine suffix meaning “-ancy (the condition or quality of being the suffixed adjective)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, anciã is a different word: “female equivalent of ancião”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ação, estado, qualidade”.

What does -ância mean in English?

suffix

  1. 1

    feminine-ancy (the condition or quality of being the suffixed adjective)

adjective

as anciã
  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of ancião

noun

as anciã
  1. 1

    femininefemale equivalent of ancião

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

suffix: 1. ação, estado, qualidade

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of -ância

  • anciãs plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to -ância

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is -ância in Portuguese?

-ância appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).