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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

divórcio

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dʒiˈvɔʁsju

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Divorce/dɪˈvɔːs/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2150 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles decidiram pedir o divórcio após anos de conflitos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The legal dissolution of a marriage.

    "After years of conflict, they decided to file for divorce."
As verb
  1. 1

    To legally dissolve one's marriage with someone.

    "They chose to divorce after realizing they had grown apart."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin word 'divortium', stemming from 'divertere', meaning 'to turn aside' or 'separate'. Entering Middle English via Old French in the 14th century, the term originally referred to a legal separation of married persons before expanding to denote the complete dissolution of a marriage bond.

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