poliginia
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9 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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poliginia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: condição do polígino, estado de um homem que convive de forma marital com mais de uma mulher ao mesmo tempo Pronounced /po.li.ʒi.ˈni.ɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poliginia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /po.li.ʒi.ˈni.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for poliginia is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /po.li.ʒi.ˈni.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 poliginia 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 poliginia, spelled P-O-L-I-G-I-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1condição do polígino, estado de um homem que convive de forma marital com mais de uma mulher ao mesmo tempo
- 2regime social de alguns animais em que um macho acasala com várias fêmeas
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