-aço

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin -āceus.

Suffix

-aço m (feminine -aça, plural -aços, feminine plural -aças)

  1. Forming augmentatives; words expressing greatness or size
    gol (“goal”) → golaço (“a nice football goal”)
    ponto (“point”) → pontaço (“a nice point scored”)
    corpo (“body”) → corpaço (“a sexy body”)

Usage notes

In Brazil, people more commonly use the augmentative -ão when meaning "a sexy body", referring to it as corpão.

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