casamento

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See also: Casamento, and casaménto

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese casamento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from casar (to marry) +‎ -mento. Compare Portuguese casamento and Spanish casamiento.

Pronunciation

Noun

casamento m (plural casamentos)

  1. marriage
    Synonym: matrimonio
  2. wedding
    Synonyms: casoiro, voda
  3. dowry (property or payment given at time of marriage)
    Synonyms: arras, dote
    • 1342, M. M. Graña Cid, editor, Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 129:
      Sabam quantos esta carta virem commo eu, Afonso Peres, prior do moesteiro de Villa Noua de Lourençaa, dou en casamento a uos, Tareyia Afonso, mina [sobrina], filla de Dominga Yannes, et a Lopo Yannes de Masma, voso marido, huna casa con sua praça et con seu forno que eu aio en Villa Noua de Lourençaa
      Let everyone reading this charter know how I, Afonso Pérez, prior of the monastery of Vilanova de Lourenzá, give in dowry to you, Tareixa Afonso, my niece, daughter of Dominga Yanes, and to Lopo Yanes of Masma, your husband, a house with its yard and its oven that I have in Vilanova de Lourenzá

References

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From casa +‎ -mento.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.zaˈmen.to/
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Hyphenation: ca‧sa‧mén‧to

Noun

casamento m (plural casamenti)

  1. apartment building, tenement

References

  • casamento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Neapolitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian casamento.

Noun

casamento m (plural casamente)

  1. an apartment building

Synonyms

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt
casamento

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese casamento, from casar (marry). By surface analysis, casar +‎ -mento.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: ca‧sa‧men‧to

Noun

casamento m (plural casamentos)

  1. wedding (marriage ceremony)
    Synonym: (vulgar) casório
  2. (uncountable) marriage

Descendants

  • Kabuverdianu: kazamentu

Further reading

  • casamento” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913