chão

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃã.u/

Inherited from Latin plānum (“level ground”).

chão m (plural chãos)

1. ground, floor
   • 13th century CE, 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.

2. flatland, plain

• prão

• Galician: chan, chá, chao
• Portuguese: chão

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

chão (plural chãos, feminine chãa, feminine plural chãas)

1. flat, smooth
   • 13th century CE, 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, chaõ (obsolete)

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɐ̃w̃]
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: chão

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

chão m (plural chãos)

1. ground, soil, earth

   Synonyms: solo, terra

2. floor

   Não deixe cair nada no chão. ― Don't let anything fall to the floor.

   Synonyms: assoalho, piso

3. (poetic) land

   Este é o nosso chão. ― This is our land.

   Synonym: terra

4. (geography, obsolete) plain

   Synonym: chã

5. (Brazil, informal) a period of time between the present and a future event

   Ainda tem um chão até o dia de eu me mudar. ― There is still some time until the day I will move.

   Synonym: tempo

• plano
• rés do chão

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

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

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)

1. rope; cord; cable (typically braided)

chão • (𧊌)

1. (in compounds) frog