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PORTUGUESE · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

povo.

people

4 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpo.vu/Brazil/ˈpo.vu/Portugal/ˈpo.bu/Northern, Portugal[ˈpo.βu]Northern, Portugal
  1. people

    masculine
  2. hamlet (a small village or a group of houses)

    masculine
  3. mob

    Brazil · masculine
  4. village

    masculine
  5. town square

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese poboo (displacing collateral form poblo), from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), maybe from Etruscan. Cognate with Galician pobo.

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