alongamento

Attested since circa 1300. From alongar (“to lengthen”) +‎ -mento.

• IPA^(key): [aloŋɡaˈmentʊ]

alongamento m (plural alongamentos)

1. an instance of lengthening (making or becoming longer)
2. stretching (form of physical exercise)
3. (phonetics) lengthening (sound change in which a phoneme becomes long)
4. (archaic) delay
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 238:

     Desy gisárõsse ben de quanto mester auj́ã et, sen outro alongamento, forõ buscar al rrey Cástor et el rrey Polus

     first they outfitted themselves with everything they needed and, without further delay, they went searching for king Castor and king Pollux

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “alongamento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “alongamento”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “alongamento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “alongamento”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From alongar (“to lengthen”) +‎ -mento.

• Hyphenation: a‧lon‧ga‧men‧to

alongamento m (plural alongamentos)

1. an instance of lengthening (making or becoming longer)
2. stretching (form of physical exercise)
3. (phonetics) lengthening (sound change in which a phoneme becomes long)
4. allonge (slip of paper attached to a document that is out of space)

   Synonym: alongue