Polyglot Dictionary

falecimento

/faleˈsimẽtu/

o noun C1

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
os falecimentos

Meaning

  1. death

    • Lamento o falecimento.

      I'm sorry for your loss.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

óbito

óbito is more medical or legal, like a death certificate term; falecimento is more formal or euphemistic, used in obituaries — both mean "death."

morte

falecimento is more formal or euphemistic; morte is the everyday direct word — both mean "death."

Similar in other languages

Spanish

muerte

muerte is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "death."

French

mort

mort is the French word for the same thing — both mean "death."

Practice

1 What does falecimento mean?

2 Fill the gap: Lamento o ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches falecimento?

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