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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

intervenção

Pronunciation / Transliteration: intervenção

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Intervention/ˌɪn.təˈvɛn.ʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A intervenção do governo ajudou a economia."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The action or process of intervening, especially to prevent an event or improve a situation.

    "Early intervention can prevent children from falling behind in school."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'interventio', stemming from 'intervenire' (to come between, interrupt), formed by 'inter-' (between) and 'venire' (to come). Entering Middle English via Old French in the 15th century, the term originally denoted mediation or arbitration before expanding into medical, social, and political operational contexts.

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