🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

luta

Pronunciation / Transliteration: luta

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Struggle/ˈstrʌɡ.əl/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Foi uma luta difícil para terminar o projeto a tempo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A energetic and hard-fought effort to overcome a difficulty or achieve a goal under adverse conditions.

    "Learning a new language can be a long daily struggle, but the results are worth it."
As verb
  1. 1

    To engage in heavy physical or mental exertion, or to move with great difficulty against resistance.

    "She struggled to lift the heavy box up the flight of stairs."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English words like 'strocen' or related to Scandinavian roots meaning to struggle or bustle, emerging in the late 14th century. Over time, it evolved from physical exertion and wrestling motions to encompass abstract emotional, social, and economic adversity.

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