panspermia
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Language
Portuguese
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panspermia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ideia inicialmente proposta pelo filósofo grego do século V a.C. Anaxágoras, onde sustentava que o Universo (ou Cosmos) estava repleto de vida e que a vida na Terra começou com a queda dessas semen... Pronounced /pɐ̃s.peʁˈmi.ɐ/ [pɐ̃s.peɦˈmi.ɐ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | panspermia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɐ̃s.peʁˈmi.ɐ/ [pɐ̃s.peɦˈmi.ɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for panspermia is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɐ̃s.peʁˈmi.ɐ/ [pɐ̃s.peɦˈmi.ɐ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for panspermia in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.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 panspermia, spelled P-A-N-S-P-E-R-M-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ideia inicialmente proposta pelo filósofo grego do século V a.C. Anaxágoras, onde sustentava que o Universo (ou Cosmos) estava repleto de vida e que a vida na Terra começou com a queda dessas sementes extraterrestres
- 2nome comum a várias hipóteses nas quais a vida terrestre é oriunda de fonte extraterrestre, quer na forma de micro-organismos já formados transportados por corpos celestes como os cometas, quer por meio de elementos constituintes da vida neles presentes (neste último caso, considerada mais plausível)
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