chão

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃã.o/

From Latin plānum (“level ground”).

chão m (plural chãos)

1. ground, floor
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 236 (facsimile):

     Como hũa moller que perigoóu no mar. ⁊ tragia un fillo pequeno nos braços. ⁊ fezea ſanta maria per címa das aguas andar de pé aſſi como ẏria per un muí bon chão.

     How a woman who sank in the sea. And had a small child in her arms. And Holy Mary brought her over the water to walk as she would in a good floor.

• prão

• Galician: chan
• Portuguese: chão

From Latin plānus (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

chão m (feminine chãa, plural chãos)

1. flat, smooth
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, 325 cantiga Cantiga 325 (facsimile):

     Pois a Catiua eſperta. / foi achouſſ en űu camỹo / ancho ⁊ chão ſen pedras / ⁊ andou o mui feſtỹno

     So the smart captive / went and found herself in a path, / ample and flat, without rocks, / and walked through it very quickly.

• Galician: chan
• Portuguese: chão

• tchão (eye dialect, North Portugal)
• cham (obsolete)
• chaõ (obsolete)

From Old Portuguese chão (“ground”), inherited from Latin plānum (“level ground”) < plānus, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Compare Spanish llano. See also the borrowed doublet plano and the semi-learned porão.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃w̃/
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃

chão m (plural chãos)

1. ground
2. floor

• (floor) assoalho m, piso m

• plano
• rés do chão

From Old Portuguese chão (“flat, smooth”), from Latin plānus. Doublet of plano, as above.

chão (feminine singular chã, masculine plural chãos, feminine plural chãs, comparable)

1. flat, level, even, smooth

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaːw˦ˀ˥]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaːw˧˨]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [caːw˨˩˦]

chão (𥿣, 𦄹)

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• dai như chão

chão (𧊌)

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• chão chàng