maioria
See also: maioría
Portuguese
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editEtymology
editFrom maior (“bigger; greater”) + -ia (“-y”), from Old Galician-Portuguese maior, from Latin māior (“bigger; greater”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“great”) + *-yos (“comparative suffix”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mai‧o‧ri‧a
Noun
editmaioria f (plural maiorias)
- majority (more than half)
Derived terms
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- Portuguese terms suffixed with -ia
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
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