🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

deficiência

Pronunciation / Transliteration: deficiência

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Impairment/ɪmˈpɛr.mənt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ele tem uma deficiência auditiva leve."

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As noun
  1. 1

    The state or fact of being impaired, damaged, or weakened.

    "Visual impairment can make reading difficult without corrective lenses."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'impairment' originates from the Middle English term 'impairen', which comes from the Old French 'empeirer', meaning to make worse. The root can be traced back to the Latin 'impairare', where 'in-' means not and 'parare' means to make equal or prepare.

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