celeridade

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kel-der.

Latin celer

Latin -tās

Latin celeritātemlbor.

Portuguese celeridade

Learned borrowing from Latin celeritātem.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /se.le.ɾiˈda.d͡ʒi/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨ.lɨ.ɾiˈda.dɨ/ [sɨ.lɨ.ɾiˈða.ðɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨ.lɨ.ɾiˈda.dɨ/ [sɨ.lɨ.ɾiˈða.ðɨ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨ.lɨ.ɾiˈda.dɨ/

• Hyphenation: ce‧le‧ri‧da‧de

Noun

celeridade f (plural celeridades)

1. (poetic or formal) celerity; speed; quickness

   Synonyms: velocidade, rapidez

2. (oceanography) celerity (speed of individual waves)

Related terms

• célere

Further reading

• “celeridade”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “celeridade”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026