respondéncia
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Macanese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a merger of Portuguese correspondência and archaic Portuguese respondência (“commercial profit”), from Latin respondentia.
Noun[edit]
respondéncia
- (finance) interest, yield
- Su sapeca têm respondéncia
- His money earns interest
- (possibly dated) air current
- Eu nã gosto respondência
- I don't like the air current
References[edit]
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
- https://dicionario.priberam.org/respond%C3%AAncia
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “respôndencia”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 62