cadeia
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese cadẽa, from Latin catēna. Compare Galician cadea, Spanish cadena, and English chain. Doublet of the direct borrowing catena.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ca‧dei‧a
Noun
[edit]cadeia f (plural cadeias)
- chain (series of interconnected rings or links)
- prison (place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes)
- Synonym: prisão
- 2019 May 22, Glenn Greenwald, quoting Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, “Glenn Greenwald entrevista Lula: ‘Bolsonaro é a velha política, eu sou a nova’”, in The Intercept[1]:
- Então, veja, para ficar muito claro, eu acho que se alguém roubar deve ir para a cadeia sendo do PT ou não sendo do PT, sendo católico ou evangélico, sabe?
- Listen, let me be crystal clear: I think if someone steals, they should go to jail, whether they’re PT or not, whether they’re Catholic or evangelical, you know?
- network
Further reading
[edit]- cadeia on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]cadeia
- inflection of cadear:
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