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jantar.

dinner (evening meal)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ʒɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/Brazil[ʒɐ̃ˈta(h)]Brazil/ʒɐ̃ˈta(ɾ)/São-Paulo/ʒɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro

  1. dinner (evening meal)

    masculine

  2. lunch; dinner (midday meal)

    masculine · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese jantar, jentar (“lunch, to have lunch”), from Vulgar Latin *iantāre (“to eat lunch”), from Latin ientāre (“to breakfast”). See iēntāculum (“the first meal of the day”).

verb/ʒɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/Brazil[ʒɐ̃ˈta(h)]Brazil/ʒɐ̃ˈta(ɾ)/São-Paulo/ʒɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro

  1. to dine

Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese jantar, jentar (“lunch, to have lunch”), from Vulgar Latin *iantāre (“to eat lunch”), from Latin ientāre (“to breakfast”). See iēntāculum (“the first meal of the day”).

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