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ano.

year

3 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɐ̃.nu/Brazil/ˈɐ.nu/Portugal/ˈa.nu/Northern, Portugal/ˈɐ.nʷ/
  1. year

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese ano (“year”), from Latin annus (“year”), from Proto-Italic *atnos (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂et-nos-, probably from *h₂et- (“to go”). Cognate with Galician ano, Spanish año, Catalan any, Occitan, French, and Romanian an, Italian anno.

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