ameaça

From Old Portuguese amẽaça, a variant of mẽaça, from Vulgar Latin *minācia, from the plural of Latin mināx (“threatening”); cf. mināciae (“threats”). Cognate with Galician ameaza, Spanish amenaza and English menace.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.me.ˈa.sa/, /a.me.ˈa.sɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ˈmja.sɐ/
• Hyphenation: a‧me‧a‧ça

ameaça f (plural ameaças)

1. threat (expression of intent to injure or punish another)
2. threat; menace (person or object that is regarded as a danger)
3. (figuratively) an indication that something bad may occur

   O trovão foi uma ameaça de tempestade.

   The thunder indicated a storm.

• (indication of something bad): ameaço

• ameaçar
• ameaçazinha (diminutive)

ameaça

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of ameaçar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of ameaçar