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cancelar.

to call off, to cancel

8 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/kɐ̃.seˈla(ʁ)/Brazil[kɐ̃.seˈla(h)]Brazil/kɐ̃.seˈla(ɾ)/São-Paulo/kɐ̃.seˈla(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. to call off, to cancel

    transitive
    A festa foi cancelada.
  2. to cancel (a person deemed unacceptable)

    neologism · transitive
    Ela foi cancelada na época, mas conseguiu reconquistar o público.
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Latin cancellāre (“to make like a lattice, to cover with a lattice, to cancel”), ultimately from cancer (“lattice, grid”), from Proto-Indo-European *geng- (“lump”). Doublet of chancelar, via French.

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