passo
Portuguese
/ˈpa.su/
noun
Definitions
- step; footstep; pace movement made from one foot to the other
- step; pace a unit distance roughly equivalent to the distance covered in a step
- step very short distance
- step; footstep sound produced by stepping on the ground
- (chiefly) pace manner or speed of walking or marching
- pace the speed of a process
- (dancing) the movements associated with a dance style
- step; stage; phase distinct part of a process or protocol
- (figurative) step an attempt in dealing with something
- (geography) pass narrow passage or channel between geographical features
- (mechanical engineering) pitch distance between a gear’s teeth
- (mechanical engineering) pitch distance between a screws’s threads
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese passo inherited from Latin passus (a step, step, pace, track, footstep, dried).
Origin
Latin
passus
Gloss
a step, step, pace, track, footstep, dried
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *passo, *passāre, *passō Latin
- *passāre Latin
- passalis Latin
- passus Latin
- passāre Latin
- Passus German
- passo Italian
- pas French
- passer French
- paso Spanish, Castilian
- *patno- Proto-Indo-European
- passere Norwegian Bokmål
- passear Portuguese
- passeata Portuguese
- passus Swedish
- pas Old French
- paŝi Esperanto
- pas Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- passo Old Portuguese
- pas Friulian
- pas Old Occitan
- passari Sicilian
- paso Venetian
- puas Dalmatian
- पासय Konkani
- pass Lombard