pundonor

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pundonor (“point of honour”), from Catalan punt d'honor.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /pũ.doˈnoʁ/ [pũ.doˈnoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /pũ.doˈnoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /pũ.doˈnoʁ/ [pũ.doˈnoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pũ.doˈnoɻ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /pũ.duˈnoɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pũ.duˈno.ɾi/

Noun

pundonor m or f by sense (plural pundonores)

honour, pride
- 1914, David Lloyd George, A Guerra Europea, Harrison and Sons, page 2:
  […] de que só a poderiamos ter evitado sacrificando a pundonor nacional.
  […] that we could not have avoided it without national dishonour.
  (literally, “ […] that we could have only avoid sacrificing the national honour.”)

References

“pundonor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
“pundonor” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan punt d'honor.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pundoˈnoɾ/ [pũn̪.d̪oˈnoɾ]
Rhymes: -oɾ
Syllabification: pun‧do‧nor

Noun

pundonor m (plural pundonores)

self-respect, amour propre

Derived terms

pundonoroso

Descendants

→ Portuguese: pundonor

Further reading

“pundonor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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