sarampo

Portuguese

Etymology

From sarampão, reanalyzed as an augmentative, from Latin sirimpiōnem (“measles”). Compare Catalan xarampió, Spanish sarampión and Galician xarampón.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈɾɐ̃.pu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈɾɐ̃.pu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈɾɐ̃.po/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐˈɾɐ̃.pu/

• Hyphenation: sa‧ram‧po

Noun

sarampo m (plural sarampos)

1. measles

Descendants

• → Guinea-Bissau Creole: sarampu

Further reading

• “sarampo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “sarampo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025