metafonia

Portuguese, noun/me.ta.foˈni.ɐ/

metafonia is spelled M-E-T-A-F-O-N-I-A (9 letters). Metafonia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “metaphony (sound change in which a vowel’s pronunciation is affected by another)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fenômeno fonético e fonológico que consiste na alteração do timbre de uma vogal tônica por assimilação à…”.

What does metafonia mean in English?

noun

1
femininemetaphony (sound change in which a vowel’s pronunciation is affected by another)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. fenômeno fonético e fonológico que consiste na alteração do timbre de uma vogal tônica por assimilação à vogal átona final. (Exemplo: corpo (ôr) - corpos (ór))

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 metafonia

metafonias plural

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

How do you pronounce metafonia?

Brazil /me.ta.foˈni.ɐ/
Portugal /mɨ.tɐ.fuˈni.ɐ/

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

English words that translate to metafonia

umlaut

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