reação
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- reacção (obsolete)
Etymology
From French réaction, from Latin reactio, from the verb reago, from re- (“again”) + ago (“to act”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁjaˈsɐ̃w̃/
Noun
reação f (plural reações)
- reaction (action in response to an event)
- (chemistry) reaction
Further reading
- reação in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913