Portuguese word senses marked with topical category "Mythological creatures": list

Portuguese word senses marked with topical category "Mythological creatures"

Total 64 word senses

Adamastor (Proper name) a giant famed by Camoens in his epic poem Os Lusíadas, who represents the dangers Portuguese sailors faced when trying to round the Cape of Storms

Anansi (Proper name) Anansi (trickster spider in West African and Caribbean folklore)

Caipora (Noun) a supernatural being in Brazilian folklore

Esfinge (Proper name) Sphinx (large monument in Egypt)

Esfinge (Proper name) Sphinx (creature with the body of a lion and head of a human)

Iblis (Proper name) Iblis (the Devil)

João Pestana (Proper name) sandman

Mamãe Noel (Proper name) Mrs. Claus, Mother Christmas (Santa Claus’ wife)

Monstro do Lago Ness (Proper name) Loch Ness monster

Mãe Natal (Proper name) Mrs. Claus (Santa Claus’ wife)

Pai Natal (Proper name) Santa Claus

Papai Noel (Proper name) Santa Claus (mythological man who brings gifts to children during Christmas)

Piton (Proper name) Python (the earth-dragon of Delphi)

Pégaso (Proper name) Pegasus (mythical winged horse)

anfisbena (Noun) amphisbaena (mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body)

anguípede (Noun) anguiped (mythological creature that had serpents in place of legs)

caquesseitão (Noun) a creature mentioned in Fernão Mendes Pinto’s memoir Peregrinação, described as having the size of a large duck, being black, having bat-like wings, a lizard-like tail, a snake-like neck, spikes the length of a quill on its back and a rooster-like spur on the back of its head

caça-fantasma (Noun) ghosthunter; ghostbuster

chupa-cabra (Noun) chupacabras

demo (Noun) demo (a software edition of limited functionality)

demo (Adjective) of limited functionality

dragão (Noun) dragon

duende (Noun) a small humanoid creature who invades homes at night to carry out mischief and scare the residents

duende (Noun) any small fictional humanoid, especially a mischievous or evil one

egipã (Noun) aegipan (goat-like creature resembling a satyr)

elfo (Noun) elf (a mythical being)

elfo (Noun) elf (humanoid)

elfo (Noun) fairy (a mythical being)

fênix (Noun) phoenix

gambozino (Noun) an imaginary animal, mostly used in the expression caça aos gambozinos

harpia (Noun) harpy

hipogrifo (Noun) hippogriff

hobbit (Noun) hobbit (a member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet)

homem-hiena (Noun) werehyena

homem-sereia (Noun) Synonym of sereio

licorne (Noun) unicorn

lobisomem (Noun) werewolf

morto-vivo (Noun) zombie, an undead person or creature

mouro (Noun) Moor (member of the Islamic peoples who invaded Iberia in the Middle Ages)

ogro (Noun) ogre (brutish giant)

orc (Noun) orc (evil, monstrous humanoid creature)

querubim (Noun) cherub (hybrid figure with a guardian function, generally represented with a human face and the winged body of a bull or lion)

querubim (Noun) cherub (each of the celestial spirits who, together with the thrones and the seraphim, form the first angelic hierarchy)

querubim (Noun) cherub (painted or carved representation of this celestial spirit, usually in the form of a plump, healthy-looking child with wings)

querubim (Noun) cherub (very beautiful child)

rusalka (Noun) rusalka (female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths)

sereia (Noun) mermaid (mythological woman with a fish's tail)

sereio (Noun) merman (legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down)

silfo (Noun) sylph (the elemental being of air)

sirena (Noun) siren (alarm)

trasgo (Noun) a mischievous mythological creature similar to a goblin or kobold found in legends of Portugal and Spain (viz. Iberia proper)

tágide (Noun) a water nymph dwelling in the Tagus river

unicórnio (Noun) unicorn

uróboro (Noun) ouroboros (a serpent, dragon or worm who eats its own tail)

vampiro (Noun) vampire (mythological creature)

vampiro (Noun) vamp (woman who uses sexual desire to exploit men)

virtude (Noun) virtue (each of several qualities held to be particularly important)

xituculumucumba (Noun) a kind of evil spirit or bogeyman that appears in nightmares

zumbi (Noun) Zumbi dos Palmares

zumbi (Noun) zombie (the undead)

zumbi (Noun) zombie (person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces)

zumbi (Noun) zombie (human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion)

zumbificar (Verb) to zombify (to turn into a zombie)

zumbificação (Noun) zombification

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