🇬🇧 en pt 🇵🇹

infect verb

  /ɪnˈfɛkt/
  • (transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
 infectar, contagiar
  • (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
 contagiar

infection noun

  /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/
  • An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
 infecção
  • (pathology) The act or process of infecting.
 infecção, infeccionamento

🇬🇧 en pt 🇵🇹

o noun

  /ˈoʊ/ , /ˈəʊ/
  • The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.
 ó

O particle

  /oʊ/ , /əʊ/
  • The vocative particle, used for direct address.
 ó

-o- affix

  • A linking vowel inserted interconsonantally between two morphemes, to ease pronunciation, without contributing to the meaning. It frequently joins words or combining forms of Ancient Greek or Classical Latin origin in the classical compounds of New Latin and international scientific vocabulary, but it can also be used to join modern terms and even abbreviations, either formally or informally.
 -o-, -ó-, -ô-
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