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-eza

Portuguese, suffix/ˈe.zɐ/

-eza is a Portuguese feminine suffix meaning “-ness; -ity (appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning “the state of ...”, “the quality of ...”, or “the measure of ...”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sufixo formador de substantivos; em muitos casos significa "qualidade de"”.

What does -eza mean in English?

suffix

  1. 1

    feminine-ness; -ity (appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning “the state of ...”, “the quality of ...”, or “the measure of ...”)

    belo (“beautiful”) + -eza → beleza (“beauty”)

suffix

as -êza
  1. 1

    archaicarchaic spelling of -esa

  2. 2

    dated spelling of -eza

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

suffix: 1. sufixo formador de substantivos; em muitos casos significa "qualidade de"

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.

How do you pronounce -eza?

  • Brazil /ˈe.zɐ/
  • Portugal /ˈe.zɐ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to -eza

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