The story
- Portuguese · borrowed fromaldeia
- English todayaldeia
Words from the same roots
Portuguesealdeia all →
aldea
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: In colonial Brazil, a settlement created to assimilate and convert the indigenous population, similar to the Spanish reducción Full definition →
Portuguesealdeia all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.