abassi

(historical) abbasi (historical Persian silver coin)


abactor

pt-noun

abactor m (plural abactores, feminine abactora, feminine plural abactoras)

abactores (plural)
abactora (feminine)
abactoras (feminine plural)


ablaut

(linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)


aardvark

Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans aardvark.


acciaccatura

Unadapted borrowing from Italian acciaccatura.

(music) acciaccatura (short grace note occurring on the beat occupied by the main note)


raptor

pt-noun

raptor m (plural raptores, feminine raptora, feminine plural raptoras)

raptores (plural)
raptora (feminine)
raptoras (feminine plural)


abscissa

(geometry) abscissa (first of two coordinates)


abatis

abatis (fortification formed by felled trees with sharpened branches)


abada

→ English: abada

→ Italian: abada

→ Spanish: abada

(obsolete) Alternative form of bada (“rhinoceros”)


abuna

(Christianity) abuna (the Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church)


livre

From Old Galician-Portuguese livre, libre, from Latin līber, from Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-os, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).


lente

Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

(optics) lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)

(anatomy) lens (transparent crystalline structure in the eye)

lens (device which focuses or defocuses electron beams)

(figuratively) lens (a way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something)

(geology) a fossil or deposit between two strata

lente de conta(c)to
lente de contato#Portuguese


frei

Frei Luís de Sousa
Brother Luís de Sousa.


thesaurus

thesaurus m (plural thesauri or thesaurus)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin thesaurus.


FAQ

(Internet) FAQ (webpage containing questions and answers about the website)


PM

polícia militar
polícia militar#Portuguese


PM

policial militar
policial militar#Portuguese

(Brazil) Initialism of policial militar.


pez

From Old Galician-Portuguese pez, from Latin picem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pī́ts (“pitch; resin”). Doublet of piche.

inh

pitch (dark, extremely viscous material made by distilling tar)


ananke

(Ancient Greek culture) ananke (necessity beyond all supplications or sway)


tesauro

Learned borrowing from Latin thēsaurus (“treasure; hoard”), from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse; treasure”). Doublet of tesouro.

der

(information science) thesaurus (hierarchical index of metadata pointing to information bearing entities)


centavo

cent (a hundredth of several monetary units, including the Brazilian real, the Portuguese escudo, and the Mozambican metical)


crude

Borrowed from English crude (“unrefined oil”). Doublet of cru.


jitter

(telecommunications) jitter (abrupt and unwanted variation of signal characteristics)


maquiladora

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish maquiladora, from maquilar (“assemble”).

maquiladora (an assembly plant in Mexico near the border with the United States)


abort

(computing) abort (function used to abort a process)


guerra

→ Papiamentu: gera

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guerra, from Early Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru, from Proto-West Germanic *werran + *-u. Doublet of varrer.

etymon

war (organised, large-scale armed conflict)

(uncountable) war; warfare (the waging of war)

(figurative) war (any large-scale conflict)


metadata

metadata (data that describes other data)


sela

From Old Galician-Portuguese sela, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.


avatar

Borrowed from French avatar, from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”). The computing sense comes from English.

der

pt:an instantiation digitally with a simulation


quisling

Unadapted borrowing from English quisling.

ubor

(derogatory) quisling (traitor who collaborates with the enemy)


mundial

[mũ.d͡ʒɪˈaʊ̯]

[mũˈd͡ʒjaʊ̯]


andante

pt-noun

andante m or f by sense (plural andantes)

From Old Galician-Portuguese andante, from andar (“to walk”) + -ante.

/ɐ̃ˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

/ɐ̃ˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/


andante

Borrowed from Italian andante (“going”).

/ɐ̃ˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

/ɐ̃ˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

(music) andante (passage to be played in a moderately slow tempo)


peso

From Old Galician-Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, from the verb penso (“to weigh”).

weight (force on an object due to the gravitational attraction)

heaviness (the condition of being heavy)

(weightlifting) weight (heavy object lifted for strength training)

(athletics) shot (heavy ball thrown in shot put)

weight (object used for its heaviness)
shot (heavy ball thrown in shot put)

— É claro que não... é claro que não — o aspirante a guerrilheiro baixou a bola da conversa. — Pensei que fosse um lapso, apenas queria chamar a atenção do camarada comandante — acrescentou com palavras vergadas ao peso da autoridade.

2008, Jorge Araújo, Pedro Sousa Pereira, Cinco balas contra a América, Editora 34, →ISBN, pages 29–30:

(figurative) weight (importance or influence)

(sports) weight class (subdivision of a competition based on the competitors’ weight)

(mathematics) weight (value that multiplies a variable)

(typography) weight; boldness (thickness of a character’s strokes)


peso

peso (currency unit of Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines)


menos

From Old Galician-Portuguese menos, displacing collateral form mẽos, from Latin minus, neuter of minor (“lesser; smaller”), comparative of parvus (“small”).


SMS

SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)


euro

Clipping of Europa, from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

euro (currency unit of the European Union)


meeting

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

ubor

conference (a formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means)

meeting, gathering (a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly)

meet (a sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming)


reality

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of reality show, from English reality show.


plural

(grammar) plural (word referring to multiple things)


wireless

Unadapted borrowing from English wireless.

(networking) wireless (wireless connectivity to a computer network)


alien

[ˈa.lɪ.ẽɪ̯̃]

Unadapted borrowing from English alien (“extraterrestrial life form”). Doublet of alheio.


digital

Borrowed from Latin digitālis. Doublet of dedal, which was inherited.

impressão digital
impressão digital#Portuguese


país

Kabuverdianu: país

Papiamentu: pais

Borrowed from French pays, from Medieval Latin pagēnsis, from Latin pāgus (“country”). Doublet of pago.

O Uruguai foi uma colónia, depois uma província, e hoje é um país.

Uruguay was a colony, then a province, and today it's a country.

Estamos em país montanhoso.

País Basco

Alice no País das Maravilhas.

country; land (a region inhabited by a particular people or characterised by a certain feature)


guarda-chuva

[ˌɡwaɾ.ðɐˈʃu.vɐ]

[ˌɡwaɾ.ðɐˈʃu.vɐ]

[ˌɡwaɾ.ðɐˈt͡ʃu.βɐ]

From guardar (“to guard”) + chuva (“rain”).


sombrinha

[sõˈbɾĩ.j̃ɐ]

[sõˈbɾĩ.j̃ɐ]

parasol (umbrella used as protection from the sun, especially a feminine one)


chuva

Guinea-Bissau Creole: tcuba

Kabuverdianu: tchuva, txuba, txuva

Macanese: chuva

→ Saramaccan: tyuba

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chuvia, from Latin pluvia. Compare Galician choiva, Spanish lluvia.


van

(Brazil) van (a covered vehicle used for carrying goods)


AIDS

pt-noun

AIDS f (usually uncountable, plural AIDS)

[ˈaɪ̯.d͡ʒiʃ]

(Brazil, pathology) AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)


singular

Learned borrowing from Latin singulāris. Doublet of senheiro.

(grammar) singular (form of a word that refers to only one thing)


point

Unadapted borrowing from English point. Doublet of ponto.

(Brazil, slang) a location where members of a group usually meet


amigo

amigo m (plural amigos, feminine amiga, feminine plural amigas)

amigos (plural)
amiga (feminine)
amigas (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese amigo, from Latin amīcus (“friend; friendly”), from amō (“to love”) + -icus. Compare Catalan amic, French ami, Italian amico, Romanian amic and Spanish amigo.

LL-Q5146 (por)-Nelson Ricardo 2500-amigo.wav

Convém, aqui, lembrar o ditado popular: amigos, amigos; negócios à parte. Caso o empreendedor saiba separar a amizade dos negócios, certamente estará em melhores condições para o sucesso.

2011, Edelvino Razzolini Filho, Administração da Pequena e Média Empresa, IESDE Brasil S.A., →ISBN, page 44:

A Jussara estava a fim de um cara e bolou um plano para conhecê-lo. Ou para ele a conhecer. Um plano minucioso, que descreveu para as amigas como se fosse uma operação militar. Em vez de conquistar um reduto inimigo, Jussara conquistaria o cara, que se renderia ao seu ataque. Ela acreditava que, no amor como na guerra, audácia era tudo.

João e Maria são meus amigos.

friend (person whose company one enjoys)

Sou amigo da natureza.

Perseverança é a melhor amiga do conhecimento.

Perseverance is knowledge’s best friend.

friend (an associate or thing which provides assistance)

O Canadá é amigo dos Estados Unidos.

a state with good relations with another state

(Brazil, colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone


os

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


CDC

Initialism for criador de conteúdo ("content creator"). Feminine form: criadora de conteúdo.

(Internet, initialism) content creator (forum or page editor)


Schadenfreude

Unadapted borrowing from German Schadenfreude.

ubor

schadenfreude (malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune)


offset

(programming) offset (byte difference between memory addresses)


software

Unadapted borrowing from English software.

(computing) software (encoded computer instructions)

(computing) a piece of software; program


smiley

Unadapted borrowing from English smiley.

smiley (simple representation of a smiling face)


emoticon

Unadapted borrowing from English emoticon.

emoticon (simple drawing using text characters)


presidente

pt-noun

presidente m or f by sense (plural presidentes, feminine presidente or presidenta, feminine plural presidentes or presidentas)

presidentes (plural)
presidente (feminine)
presidenta (feminine)
presidentes (feminine plural)
presidentas (feminine plural)

Macanese: pisidénte

→ Tetum: prezidente

From Latin praesidentem (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem).


um

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ũu (“one; a”), from Latin ūnum (“one”), from Old Latin oinos, from Proto-Italic *oinos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“one”). Doublet of uno.

inh+

O um parece o sete sem gravata no pescoço.

The one looks like the seven with no tie at its neck.


HIV

[ɐˈɣa ˈi ˈβe]

Orthographic borrowing from English HIV.

(medicine) HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)


is

Se você pôs os pingos nos is e cortou os tês então pode fazer o que quiser!

2003, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 411

If you've dotted your I's and crossed your T's, then you can do whatever you want!


cowbell

Unadapted borrowing from English cowbell.

ubor

(music) cowbell (a percussion instrument)


tigre

pt-noun

tigre m (plural tigres, feminine tigresa, feminine plural tigresas)

tigres (plural)
tigresa (feminine)
tigresas (feminine plural)

→ Tetum: tigre

From Latin tīgris (“tiger”), from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris, “tiger”).


ace

(tennis) ace (tennis: point scored without the opponent hitting the ball)


krill

krill (small marine crustacean of the class Malacostraca)


DNA

Orthographic borrowing from English DNA.


ad

(Brazil, chiefly Internet slang) ad (short for advertisement)


grey

Alternative form of gray (race of extraterrestrials)


radar

radar (radio device for detecting distant objects)

radar de velocidade
radar de velocidade#Portuguese

Short for radar de velocidade (“speed camera”).


country

[ˈkɐ̃ʊ̯̃.tɾi]

Unadapted borrowing from English country.
The pronunciation reflects the incorrect belief that the <oun> represents /aʊn/ in the English etymon.


tuba

(music) tuba (a large brass musical instrument)


tempo

From Old Galician-Portuguese tempo, from Latin tempus (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Não vi o tempo passar.

2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 135:

Sim, o tempo passando desfoca devagar as lentes da memória, embala-nos pouco a pouco, ao sabor dos incidentes cotidianos, deixo a firma, arranjo outro emprego e outro(s) homem(ns), as cenas antigas vão perdendo seu brilho, mas ainda lembro Rodrigo.

2008, Sonia Coutinho, Uma certa felicidade, 7Letras, →ISBN, page 70:

(uncountable) time (the progression from the present into the future)

Não há tempo para explicar, entra no carro!

There is no time to explain, get in the car!

(uncountable) time (quantity of availability of duration)

Ficara muito tempo na cadeia.

a duration of time, especially a long one

(uncountable) weather (state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place)

O tempo dos dinossauros.

É tempo de colheita.

season (part of a year when something particular happens)

(grammar) tense (forms of a verb which distinguish when an action occurs)

(sports) a subdivision of the duration of a match (such as halves in football, quarters in basketball)


bot

Unadapted borrowing from English bot. Doublet of robô.

(computing) bot (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks)

(video games) bot (a player controlled by software)


perpendicular

pt-noun

perpendicular f (plural perpendiculares)

Borrowed from Late Latin perpendiculāris, from perpendiculum.


humor

From Old Galician-Portuguese umor, humor, borrowed from Latin hūmōrem (“humour, fluid”).

(historical) humour (one of the four basic bodily fluids in humourism)


date

Antes de convidar o cara para um date, pense na situação que irá deixá-la mais confortável e evite, assim, gaguejar ou se atrapalhar toda na hora de fazer a proposta.

2015 December 18, “5 dicas para convidar aquele cara para um date…”, in Capricho, São Paulo: Abril:

(Brazil, informal) date (romantic meeting)


guanaco

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Lama guanicoe
Lama guanicoe#Translingual

guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)


bit

(mathematics, computing) bit (binary digit)


regime

→ Hunsrik: Rëschimm

Learned borrowing from Latin regimen. Doublet of regímen.

diet (controlled regimen of food and drink)


alpaca

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Vicugna pacos
Vicugna pacos#Translingual

alpaca (Vicugna pacos, a camelid of the Andes)


alpaca

nickel silver (alloy of copper, zinc and nickel)


musical

From música (“music”) + -al (“of or relating to”).

af

musical (stage performance, show or film that focuses on singing and dancing)


gringo

pt-noun

gringo m (plural gringos, feminine gringa, feminine plural gringas)

gringos (plural)
gringa (feminine)
gringas (feminine plural)

(Brazil, colloquial) a foreigner, especially one from a Northern country and especially one from the United States

(Rio Grande do Sul, colloquial) someone of (more commonly) Italian or (more rarely) European descent.


jack

Unadapted borrowing from English jack. Doublet of jaque.

jack (an electronic connector mounted on a surface)

(Brazil, slang) rapist, strictly a male one


design

Unadapted borrowing from English design. Doublet of desenhar and designar.

design (plan for the structure and functions of an object or system)

design (aesthetically pleasing shape or appearance of an object)

design (the art of designing aesthetically pleasing things)


bongo

Tragelaphus eurycerus
Tragelaphus eurycerus#Translingual

bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus, an African antelope)


cachaça

Uncertain, possibly from cachaço (“boar”).

(Brazil, informal) any alcoholic beverage, especially a distilled spirit; booze; grog


caipirinha

caipirinha (traditional Brazilian drink prepared with cachaça, lime juice, sugar and ice)


caipirinha

caipirinha m or f by sense (plural caipirinhas)


zebra

→ Italian: zebra

→ English: zebra

→ Turkish: zebra

From zebro, from Old Galician-Portuguese zebro, ezebro (“European wild ass”), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”). Compare Spanish cebra.
Senses 2 and 3 of the word comes from the popular Brazilian betting game jogo do bicho, in which the animal is absent, therefore it is unlikely that a zebra will be drawn.

Para aqueles, todavia, que não estivessem afeitos a perseguir a zebra pelas encostas escarpadas, a galgar os precipícios após a cabra montês e a combater com os ursos e javalis nas bordas dos fojos, sem se lhes turbar a vista; para esses tais a ponte vegetal dos astúrios seria um sítio arriscado.

1844, Alexandre Herculano, chapter XVI, in Eurico, o Presbítero:

Aquele time ganhou quando todo mundo pensou que ele iria perder, mas que zebra!

That [soccer] team won when everyone else thought they were going to lose, what an underdog!

(Brazil, slang) A victorious competitor initially thought unlikely to win, especially in sports; an underdog

(Brazil, slang) an unexpected result in a competition

— Ah! já sei, disse ele; receou ofender a suscetibilidade da formosa senhora. É um homem polido… e tolo, creio eu. Tanto melhor, não me dou com espertos e malcriados. Carta a Z. Z. Z. Que querem dizer estas letras? Serão também simbólicas? Três vezes zebra, talvez quisesse dizer de si mesmo o anunciante. Pois, senhor, é comigo.

1872, Machado de Assis, chapter III, in Canseiras em vão:

Não sou zebra, que, se quer balas alguém, compra-as a três por vintém.

1879, Artur de Azevedo, “Ato Primeiro”, in A Joia, Cena VII:

(Brazil, derogatory) idiot, stupid person

(motor racing) curb (line of flat curbstones on the corners of racing tracks)

Passagem para peões, constituída por bandas em zebra, paralelas ao eixo da via, ou por duas linhas transversais contínuas (M11 e M11ª): indica o local por onde os peões devem efectuar o atravessamento da via.

1994, chapter I, in Decreto-Lei de Portugal 114 de 1994 (Código da estrada português), Artigo 6º - Sinais:


wiki

wiki f or (less common) m (plural wikis)

wiki (website allowing collaborative editing of content)


close

(photography) close-up (photography in which the subject is shown at a large scale)


general

Learned borrowing from Latin generālis. Doublet of geral.

(military) general (highest rank in the category of Army and Air Force officers, whose insignia consists of four stars)


general

general m or f by sense (plural generais)

→ Tetum: jenerál

(military) general (officer holding that post)

(military) general (designation common to military personnel holding the ranks of general, lieutenant general and major general)


i

The name of the Latin-script letter I/i.


zero

Borrowed from French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”). Doublet of cifra.

(mathematics) zero (value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero)


habitat

(biology) habitat (natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives)

O teatro era o seu habitat natural.

(figuratively) place where an individual or group believes is ideal in and often frequents


xerox

photocopy; xerox (copy of a document made using a photocopier)

photocopier; copier (machine which makes copies of paper documents)

a shop where photocopying and related services are offered


iceberg

[ˌaj.sɨˈβɛɾ.ɣɨ]

Unadapted borrowing from English iceberg, from Dutch ijsberg (literally “ice mountain”).


sorbet

Unadapted borrowing from French sorbet. Doublet of sorvete.


mundo

Kabuverdianu: mundu

Papiamentu: mundu

Tetum: mundu

From Old Galician-Portuguese mundo, from Latin mundus (“world”).

A Terra é o melhor planeta do mundo.

The Earth is the best planet in the world.

(uncountable, with article o) world (the Universe)

A maior parte do mundo é coberta por água.

(uncountable, with article o) world (the Earth)

O mundo inteiro viu aquilo.

(uncountable, with article o) world; humanity (human beings collectively)

Habilidade é importante no mundo da música.

Skill is important in the world of music.

pt:everything related to a certain field

world (everything related to a certain field)

Para os europeus do século XV, a América era um novo mundo.

For 15th century Europeans, America was a new world.

Por enquanto, Marte é um mundo inabitado.

Está nos dizendo que abaixo da cachoeira, isto é, no fim dos mundos, no abismo é onde se situa o mundo dos mortos?

2008, Billy M. Hidalgo, Sombras do Infinito, Clube de Autores, page 532:

Choveu um mundo de água.

(informal, with article um) world (a large amount)


banana

→? English: banana

→ French: banane

→? Spanish: banana

/bɐ̃ˈnɐ̃.nɐ/

Borrowed from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Further derivation is unclear. Possible ancestor or cognate languages include Wolof banaana, Eastern Maninkakan banana, and Vai ꕒꘌꕯ (ɓaana) or ꕒꕌꕯ (ɓaana). However, Ay Baati Wolof (Munro & Gaye, 1997) posits that Wolof banaana is itself derived from Portuguese.

As bananas são ricas em potássio

(Brazil, informal) bras d'honneur (obscene gesture)


banana

/bɐ̃ˈnɐ̃.nɐ/

Aquele rapaz é um banana!

(derogatory, slang) wimp (a weak or unconfident person)


boom

(economics, business) boom (period of prosperity)


caracal

Caracal caracal
Caracal caracal#Translingual


mi

From Latin mi(ra) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.


for

(programming) for loop (a loop that uses a counter)


finale

(chiefly art) finale (grand end of a show or piece of music)


after

Unadapted borrowing from English after[-party].


update

Unadapted borrowing from English update.


mouse

(Brazil, computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)

(Brazil, loosely) pointer; cursor (moving icon that indicates the position of the mouse)


hobby

hobby (an activity that one enjoys doing in one’s spare time)


sequoia

Sequoia sempervirens
Sequoia sempervirens#Translingual

sequoia; redwood (Sequoia sempervirens, a very large coniferous tree of North America)


adelo

pt-noun

adelo m (plural adelos, feminine adela, feminine plural adelas)

adelos (plural)
adela (feminine)
adelas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Arabic الدَلَّال (ad-dallāl, “auctioneer”).

bor+

thrift shop (shop which sells used goods)


tutu

Tio Patinhas: Mas eu lhe emprestei um cruzado para comprar um livro! Lembra-se?
Ademar: Sim, eu me lembro! Mas eu já li o livro! E não preciso mais pagar! […] Sim, você tem tutu de sobra! Não lhe fará falta êsse cruzeirinho.

1971, "Donald, Meu Sobrinho", O Pato Donald #1000 (English text: 1952, "The Hypno-Gun", Walt Disney's Comics #145)

Uncle Scrooge: But I loaned you a dollar to buy a book! Don't you remember?
Rockjaw: Sure I remember! But I've read the book! I don't need to pay you now! […] And, besides, you've got lots of money! You don't need the dollar!


lama

From Old Galician-Portuguese lama, from Latin lāma (“swamp”).


cool

Filter-avoidance spelling of cu (“anus, butthole”).


animal

Learned borrowing from Latin animal. Doublet of alimária.

Primatas — Animais mamíferos, da ordem Primata, que compreende os macacos, antropóides e o homem.

2020, Petrônio Braz, Léxico dos Gerais, Chiado Books, page 481:

Primates — Mammalian animals, of the order Primata, which comprises monkeys/apes, anthropoids and man.

(biology) animal (any member of the kingdom Animalia)

Separar os dois grupos — humanos e animais requereria, dentro dos limites da teoria relativa à dor e ao sofrimento, […]

2007, Daniela Ikawa, Valor humano intrínseco e redistribuição social in 2007, Flávia Piovesan, Daniela Ikawa, Direitos Humanos: Fundamento, Proteção e Implementação, volume 2, Juruá Editora, page 44

Separating the two groups — humans and animals would require, within the limits of the theory relating to pain and suffering, […]

(non-scientific usage) animal (an animal other than a human, especially a vertebrate)

Escute aqui, seu animal, então você brigou com o companheiro?

1979, Wilson Bacelar de Oliveira, Os meus fantasmas, Editora Comunicação, page 490:

Listen up, you dumbass, so you fought with [your] mate?

Josuel é um animal repulsivo, uma besta humana.

2007, Creso Balduíno, O verso do ser, Editora Revan, page 170:

Josuel is a repulsive beast, a human beast.


alegria

/ɐ.lɨˈɡɾi.ɐ/

[ɐ.lɨˈɣɾi.ɐ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese alegria. By surface analysis, alegre (“happy”) + -ia.


pupa

Borrowed from New Latin pupa, from special use of Latin pūpa.

pupa (insect in its development stage between a larva and an adult)


anu

→? English: ani


bosque

Borrowed from Provençal bosc, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”).

der

grove (set of trees, shrubs and other plants, generally smaller than a forest)

woods (land covered with trees, often consisting of only a few plant species)


grito

From Old Galician-Portuguese grito, from gritar, from Vulgar Latin *crītāre, either from Latin quirītō or Frankish *krītan.


carne

From Old Galician-Portuguese carne, from Latin carnem (“meat”), from Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”). Compare Catalan carn, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian carne.

A morte do corpo não conduz a situações miraculosas, dizia. Todo processo evolutivo implica gradação. Há regiões múltiplas para os desencarnados, como existem planos inúmeros e surpreendentes para as criaturas envolvidas de carne terrestre.

1943, André Luiz, Francisco Cândido Xavier, Nosso Lar:

Nem é preciso dizer que o jantar foi um verdadeiro desastre. O arroz ficou empedrado, tipo “unidos venceremos”, a carne virou uma “sola de sapato”, salvou-se mais ou menos a salada, mesmo assim porque Cláudia não quis comentar nada a respeito de uma lesma que viu na alface mal lavada. Mas ali coube perfeitamente o dito popular “a fome é o melhor tempero”.

2008, Priscila Ferraz, nuvem de pó, Marco Zero, →ISBN, page 58:

pulp; flesh (edible part of fruit/vegetable)

Estrogonofe de carne ou de frango

2012 December 31, Luciana Carpinelli, Cozinhando para 2 ou 1:

O que é mais nutritivo carne ou frango?

2022 February 10, Luciana Carpinelli, Fluxo de Informação:


amiga

From Old Galician-Portuguese amiga, from Latin amīca.


grupo

Borrowed from Italian gruppo, from Vulgar Latin *cruppō, itself from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”). Compare Renaissance Latin grupus.

group (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other)

group (people who perform music together)


diesel

Unadapted borrowing from English diesel, from German Diesel, from Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the Diesel engine.


mosquito

→ Hunsrik: Muskitt


barato

Esse livro é o maior barato!

Ler é um barato!

(Brazil, informal) fun (something that brings enjoyment)

(Brazil, colloquial) high (period of excitement or relaxation caused by drug use)


IA

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computing) AI (artificial intelligence)


voz

From Old Galician-Portuguese voz, from Latin vōcem, from Proto-Italic *wōks, from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs.


ventana

Borrowed from Spanish ventana, from Latin ventus. Doublet of ventã (“windown”) and venta (“nostril”).


brother

Unadapted borrowing from English brother.


MC

Borrowed from English MC (“master of ceremonies; rapper”).

bor+

mestre de cerimônias
mestre de cerimônias#Portuguese


hamster

From German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.

hamster (small, short-tailed European rodent)


VT

(by extension) a short recorded video, especially one shown on the TV as part of a larger show


civil

Borrowed from Latin cīvīlis (“civil”), from cīvis (“citizen”). Doublet of cível.

civilian, non-combatant (person who is not a member of the military, police or belligerent group)


CA

corrente alternada
corrente alternada#Portuguese

(electricity) Abbreviation of corrente alternada. AC


salsa

Petroselinum crispum
Petroselinum crispum#Translingual


salsa

(music, dance genre) salsa (a music and dance genre influenced by Cuban music, jazz and rock)


banshee

(Irish mythology) banshee (a female spirit who warns of impending death)


sol

Guinea-Bissau Creole: sol

Kabuverdianu: sol

Papiamentu: sol

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sol, from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

sun (a star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system)

sunshine (a location on which the sun's rays fall)

O sol frio de inverno.

(uncountable) weather (the state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place)


sol

From Latin solve in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.


sol

(chemistry, physics) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)


gray

(physics) gray (SI unit of absorbed radiation)


gray

(ufology) gray (one of a race of evil, short extraterrestrial beings)


bronze

Borrowed from French bronze, from Italian bronzo, either from Byzantine Greek βροντησίον (brontēsíon), presumably from Βρεντήσιον (Brentḗsion, “Brindisi”), known for the manufacture of bronze; or ultimately from Persian برنج (berenj, beranj, “brass”) ~ پرنگ (pereng, “copper”).

bronze (a naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper)


handicap

Unadapted borrowing from English handicap.


juiz

pt-noun

juiz m or m or f by sense (plural juízes, feminine juíza, feminine plural juízas)

juiz m or (by-personal-gender canonical feminine masculine)
juízes (plural)
juíza (feminine)
juízas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese juiz, from Latin iūdicem. Compare Galician xuíz.


magia

Borrowed from Late Latin magia, from Ancient Greek μαγεία (mageía).

O senhor realizou extraordinária magia com essa varinha.

2007, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows] (Harry Potter; 7), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 508:

You, sir, have realized extraordinary magic with that wand.

allegedly supernatural method to dominate natural forces

Estou a praticar truques de magia para poder trabalhar como mágico num circo.

I'm training magic tricks so that I can work as a magician in a circus.

trick or illusion performed to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena

(figuratively) the feeling or something amazing and captivating


pico

Escalaram até o pico.

peak, summit, top (the highest point of a mountain)

O Pico da Neblina é a montanha mais alta do Brasil.

Pico da Neblina is the highest mountain in Brazil.

(by extension) a high mountain that ends in a peak

(figuratively) top, apogee, acme (the greatest, highest, most successful or most developed point of anything)

unit of measurement
unit of measurement#English

picul (Chinese outdated unit of measurement of weight, roughly equivalent to 60.47 kg or 110.2 lb)

(informal, more commonly in plural) each bubble in a carbonated beverage

(Brazil, informal) hullabaloo; turmoil; tumult; commotion; riot


juramento

From Old Galician-Portuguese juramento, from Late Latin iūrāmentum (“oath”), from Latin iūrō. By surface analysis, jurar + -mento.


chocolate

Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl [Term?], possibly from chocolātl (a late attestation), though the etymology is unclear. See chocolate.

O astronauta Jim Bagian, um chocólatra inveterado, conseguiu levar para dentro da Space Shuttle, durante o seu primeiro voo, uma barra de chocolate Mars.

2009, Joan Vernikos, Thais Russomano, A gravidade, esta grande escultora: como usar a gravidade terrestre a seu favor, EDIPUCRS, →ISBN, page 131:


coral

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin chorālis. By surface analysis, coro + -al.

lbor

(music) choir (ensemble of people who sing together)

(music) choral song (song written for a choir to perform)

(figurative) a group of people, creatures or objects making noise together


coral

From Late Latin corallum or Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion, “coral”), of uncertain origin.

der

coral (any of various species of anthozoans)


burro

pt-noun

burro m (plural burros, feminine burra, feminine plural burras)

burros (plural)
burra (feminine)
burras (feminine plural)

Back-formation from burrico (“small donkey”), from Latin burricus (“small horse”), from burrus (“red-brown”), from Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “flame colored”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).

der

quando um burro fala, o outro abaixa a orelha


burro

(Brazil, university slang, dated) crib (a literal translation, usually of a Classical work)

(Angola) African striped grunt (Parapristipoma octolineatum)


night

(sometimes humorous) nightlife (nocturnal entertainment activities, especially parties and shows)


humo

Learned borrowing from Latin humus (“earth, soil, ground”).


pato

pt-noun

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

patos (plural)
pata (feminine)
patas (feminine plural)

Kabuverdianu: patu

→ Tok Pisin: pato

From Old Galician-Portuguese pato (“duck”), from Andalusian Arabic بَطّ (paṭṭ), from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ, “duck”), from Persian بت (bat, “duck”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish pato and Swahili bata.


phrase

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of frase.


acre

Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of agro.

(measure) English or American acre, a unit of area about equal to 0.4 hectares


matador

matador m (plural matadores, feminine matadora, feminine plural matadoras)

matadores (plural)
matadora (feminine)
matadoras (feminine plural)


saia

Kabuverdianu: saia

→ Bengali: শায়া (śaẏa), সায়া (śaẏa)

→ Kadiwéu: jaye

From Old Galician-Portuguese saya, from Vulgar Latin *săgĭa, from Latin sagum, from Gaulish *sagos or from Ancient Greek σάγος (ságos) (cloak); cognate with Galician saia and archaic Spanish saya.


qigong

alternative medicine
alternative medicine

(alternative medicine) qigong (a Chinese system of body movement and meditation)


boy

Ellipsis of office boy, from English office boy.

(Brazil, slang, sometimes derogatory) a young, upper-class man

Me declarei pro boy.

Estou com meu boy.

(Brazil, slang) boyfriend (male partner)


negociante

negociante m or f by sense (plural negociantes)

→ Tetum: negosiante

businessman (someone who works at a commercial institution)


pizza

pizza (baked Italian dish of dough with topped with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients)

(Brazil, slang) sweat visible in the clothes, specially under armpits


zoom

(photography) zoom lens (lens whose focal length can be rapidly changed)


torta

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”).


gallo

gallo m (plural gallos, feminine gallinha, feminine plural gallinhas)

gallos (plural)
gallinha (feminine)
gallinhas (feminine plural)

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of galo.


mapa

Borrowed from Latin mappa (“napkin”), from Punic [Term?].

(dated)

(video games, board games) an environment where a game is played


luz

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese luz, from Latin lūcem, from Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Doublet of lux. Compare Galician luz.

inh+

1915, Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa), “É noite”

It's night. The night is very dark. In a house a great distance away. The light from a window shines.

É noite. A noite é muito escura. Numa casa a uma grande distancia. Brilha a luz d'uma janella.

light (medium within which vision is possible)

light; light source (object that emits light)

(figurative) light; enlightenment (knowledge about things as they really are)


as

From Old Galician-Portuguese as, from Latin illās (with an initial l having disappeared; compare Spanish las).


rato

pt-noun

rato m (plural ratos, feminine rata, feminine plural ratas)

ratos (plural)
rata (feminine)
ratas (feminine plural)

From Vulgar Latin rattus (“rat”), of Germanic origin. Cognate to Galician rato and Spanish ratón. Mostly displaced Old Galician-Portuguese mur. The computing term is a semantic loan from English mouse.

(computer hardware, Portugal) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)

burglar; petty thief (person who steals small objects)


rato

From Latin raptus, compare Spanish rato.

(Trás-os-Montes) while (a very short period of time)


pretzel

From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel.

pretzel (toasted bread or cracker in the shape of a knot)


nada

Guinea-Bissau Creole: nada

Kabuverdianu: nada

From Old Galician-Portuguese nada, from Latin (nūlla rēs) nāta (literally “no born thing, not a thing born”).

der

Ele pôs um nada de sal na comida.

He added a very small amount of salt in the food.


pata

→ Sranan Tongo: pata
Dutch: patta

(colloquial) human leg, foot, footprint (often used by an angry person)


pata

female equivalent of pato; a female duck


dia

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dia, from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs, reformed from the accusative diem, from Proto-Italic *djēm, the accusative of *djous (“day, sky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”).

inh

1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 5th canto

The Sun brought the celebrated day / In which three Kings from the East,

Trazia o Sol o dia celebrado / Em que tres Reis das partes do Oriente,

period from midnight to the following midnight

Mas logo ao outro dia ſeus parceiros / Todos nús, & da cor da eſcura treua,

But just the other day his partners / All naked, & coloured as the dark darkness,

(astronomy) rotational period of a planet

(in phrases) date celebrating a particular thing, usually an event, profession or person

(in phrases) a unspecified period of time either in the past or in the future


pen

Comprei uma pen de 16 Gb.

(computing) pen drive, flash drive (small portable device that connects to a computer via a USB port and is used to store and/or transfer data)


larva

Learned borrowing from Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).

lbor

larva (early growth stage of some insects and amphibians)


rata

(chiefly Portugal, informal) vagina (woman's genitalia)


liberal

pt-noun

liberal m or f by sense (plural liberais)

Borrowed from Latin līberālis (“befitting a freeman”), from līber (“free”).


copyright

Unadapted borrowing from English copyright


fórmula química

pt-noun

fórmula química f (plural fórmulas químicas)


tundra

Borrowed from French toundra, from Russian ту́ндра (túndra).

(geography) tundra (flat, treeless region around the Arctic)


capital

Borrowed from Latin capitālis. Doublet of cabedal and caudal.

(geopolitics) capital; capital city (place where the seat of a government is located)

(figurative) capital (the most important place associated with something)


capital

(finances) capital (money that can be used to acquire goods and services)

(figurative) anything of prime importance


vocal

Learned borrowing from Latin vōcālis. Doublet of vogal.


input

(computing) input (data fed into a process)


save

Eu cheguei mesmo na última fase, mas perdi meu save então terei que começar o jogo de novo.

I did reach the final level, but I lost my save file so I'm gonna have to start the game over.

Insira um memory card no console com um save do jogo Shinobi.

2005, Equipe Digerati, Dicas Arrasadoras Para Playstation, Universo dos Livros Editora, →ISBN, page 80:

(informal, gaming) save file (of a video game or computer game)


feed

(Internet) feed (encapsulated online content that one can subscribe to)


bend

(music, electric guitar) bend (change in pitch produced by bending a string)


reactor

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of reator. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.


tear

1878, Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins, O hellenismo e a civilisação christan, publ. by the widow Bertand & Co., page 24.
Procuro o motivo, Lysidice, porque gravaram na tua louza estes emblemas: um bridão, um freio, o passaro que abunda em Tanagro, vivo e bellicoso, não costumam convir nem agradar á mulheres sedentarias que amam o tear e a roca.

I am trying to find out why they carved these emblems into your tombstone, Lysidice: a bridoon, a bit, the bird that is common in Tanagro, lively and warlike; they are usually neither convenient nor pleasant to sedentary women who love the loom and the distaff.

loom (machine used to make cloth out of thread)


claque

(Portugal, sports) supporters (people who support something, especially a sports team)


face

From Old Galician-Portuguese façe, faz, from Latin faciēs. Doublet of fácies.


OK

OK (an indication of acknowledgement or acceptance)


espanhol

espanhol m (plural espanhóis, feminine espanhola, feminine plural espanholas)

espanhóis (plural)
espanhola (feminine)
espanholas (feminine plural)

[is.pɐ̃ˈj̃ɔʊ̯]

[es.pɐ̃ˈj̃ɔʊ̯]

[is.pɐ̃ˈj̃ɔʊ̯]

[es.pɐ̃ˈj̃ɔʊ̯]

/iʃ.pɐ̃ˈɲɔw/

[iʃ.pɐ̃ˈj̃ɔʊ̯]

/eʃ.pɐ̃ˈɲɔw/

[eʃ.pɐ̃ˈj̃ɔʊ̯]

[es.pɐˈɲɔʊ̯]

/ɪs.pɐ̃ʲ̃.ˈj̃ɔw/

/ɪʃ.pɐ̃ʲ̃.ˈj̃ɔw/

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese espanhol (“Iberian”), from Old Occitan espaignol, from a Vulgar Latin *Hispaniolus, from Latin Hispānus. Compare Galician and Spanish español. Doublet of hispano

inh+

(uncountable) Spanish (Romance language spoken in Spain and much of Latin America)


conductor

pt-noun

conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)

conductores (plural)
conductora (feminine)
conductoras (feminine plural)


factor

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of fator. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.


tractor

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of trator. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.


exterior

Contratamos um pintor para pintar apenas o exterior da casa, o interior pintaremos nós mesmo.

We hired a painter to paint the outside of the house; we will paint the inside ourselves.

Não deixe nada no exterior deste círculo.

Don’t leave anything outside this circle.

outside (the space beyond some limit or boundary)


exterior

Ela mora no exterior desde criança.

She has lived abroad since she was a child.

exterior; territory of foreign countries


actor

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of ator. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.


remake

Unadapted borrowing from English remake.

remake (new version of a production, such as a film or a videogame)


interior

Learned borrowing from Latin interiōrem.

Tirei uma bola do interior da caixa.

I took out a ball from interior the box.

Esses fazendeiros moraram sempre no interior.

Those farmers have always lived in the country.

country; countryside; interior (regions outside major cities)


look

Amei seu look.

(informal) outfit; look, style (a set of clothing with accessories, usually special clothes)


drive

drive (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural drives)

(computer hardware) drive (a mass-storage device)


central

(Portugal, soccer) back (player in a position behind most players on the team)


bug

(computing) bug (error in a program’s functioning)

(Brazil, slang) anything causing unusual behaviour


funeral

Borrowed from Late Latin fūnerālis, from Latin funus.

funeral (ceremony to honour and bury a deceased person)


canal

From Old Galician-Portuguese canal, from Latin canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). This form may possibly be an early borrowing or semi-learned term; compare the fully inherited doublet cale, and related calha.

(radio) channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)


crime

Borrowed from French crime, from Latin crīmen.

O ladrão cometeu um crime horrível.


make

[…] nunca faço uma make completa, escolho sempre as coisas mais básicas, e só tive uma embalagem de base na vida.

2023 April 1, Gisela Casimiro, Estendais, Leya, →ISBN:

[…] I never do a full face of makeup, I always choose the most basic things, and I've only had one bottle of foundation in my life.

(Brazil, informal) makeup (cosmetics and colorants applied to the skin)


mama

From Latin mamma. Compare Italian mammella, French mamelle.


limo

seaweed, wack (weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond)


boot

Unadapted borrowing from English boot. Doublet of bota.

As informações de boot podem ser armazenadas em uma partição separada. Mais uma vez, ela tem seu próprio formato, pois, no momento do boot, o sistema ainda não carregou drivers de dispositivo do sistema de arquivos e, por isso, não pode interpretar o formato do sistema de arquivos.

2008, Sistemas Operacionais com Java, Sistemas Operacionais com Java, Elsevier Brasil, →ISBN, page 311:

(computing) boot (the act or process of bootstrapping)

Pisa no meu coração, só não pisa no boot senão viro o bicho.

2019, “Não Pisa no Meu Boot”, MC Caveirinha (lyrics), Wall Hein (music)São Paulo: Cp9 Produtora, retrieved 2023-10-14:

(Brazil, chiefly São Paulo, slang) sneaker


string

Unadapted borrowing from English string. Doublet of estrém.

(computing) string (sequence of consecutive text characters)


spread

Unadapted borrowing from English spread. Doublet of espargir.

(business, economics) spread (the difference between the wholesale and retail prices)

(finance, economics) difference between the interest rate a bank charges to a client and the interest rate it pays


chance

Borrowed from French chance. Doublet of cadência.


shot

(informal) shot (small quantity of drink, especially alcohol)


sweep

(electric guitar) sweep (arpeggio played with a single movement of the picking hand)


slide

slide (transparent image for projecting)

(music) slide (device for playing slide guitar)

(music) slide (guitar technique where the player moves finger up or down the fretboard)


kanji

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (kanji, “Chinese characters”).

kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)


hit

hit (success, especially in the entertainment industry)


crush

crush m or f or m or f by sense (plural crushes or crush)

crush m or f or (by-personal-gender canonical feminine masculine)
crushes (plural)
crush (plural)

(colloquial) crush (an infatuation with somebody one is not dating)


straight

Unadapted borrowing from English straight.

ubor

(poker) straight (five cards in sequence)


spin

(physics) spin (quantum angular momentum of subatomic particles)


control

Unadapted borrowing from English control. The established pronunciation reflects a widespread mispronunciation of the English word. Doublet of controle and controlo.


era

era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)

(archaeology) age (period of human prehistory)

(geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods)


rumor

rumour (statement or claim from no known reliable source)

No confuso rumor que se formava, destacavam-se risos, sons de vozes que altercavam, sem se saber de onde, grasnar de marrecos, cantar de galos, cacarejar de galinhas.

1890, Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:


modem

Unadapted borrowing from English modem for European Portuguese and orthographic borrowing from English for Brazilian Portuguese.

(networking, computer hardware) modem (a device that encodes computer signals into telephone signals and vice versa)


pay

De ſeu pay ⁊ ſua mãy ⁊ ſeu nacimento.

1545, Garcia de Resende, Liuro das obras de Garcia de Reſẽnde que trata da vida […] do christianiſſimo; muito alto ⁊ muyto poderoſo principe el Rey dõ João o ſegundo deſte nome, page 1:

About his father and his mother and his birth.


show

show (an entertainment performance event)

(especially) concert (musical presentation)

Aquela aula foi um show.

(Brazil, colloquial) an act or performance that demonstrates high skill; spectacle; display; feat

(colloquial, often used in dar um show) the action of crying or yelling out loud in order to protest or complain about something, often in the context of a discussion or argument


strike

Unadapted borrowing from English strike.

(bowling) strike (the act of knocking down all pins)

(baseball) strike (the act of missing a swing at the ball)


rim

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rin, from Latin rēn, from Proto-Italic *hrēn, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“an internal part of the body”).


laser

laser (device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light)


samurai

(military, historical) samurai (feudal Japanese warrior)


body

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from bodysuit.


bridge

Unadapted borrowing from English bridge.


ether

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of éter.


piano

→ Hunsrik: Piano

Borrowed from Italian piano, short form of pianoforte. Doublet of plano, chão, and porão.


base

Borrowed from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis).


romaji

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese ローマ字 (ローマじ, rōmaji, literally “Roman letters”), from ローマ (Rōma, “Rome, Roman”) + 字 (じ, ji, “letter, character”).


cover

(music) cover version (rerecording of a song by another musician or group)


cover

Ele é cover do Elvis Presley.

impersonator (an entertainer whose act is based upon performing impressions of others)


pinyin

Pinyin (romanisation standard for Mandarin Chinese)


flow

(colloquial) flow (the ability to rap skillfully)


round

[ˈhaʊ̯̃d͡ʒi]

[ˈhaʊ̯̃d͡ʒi]

[ˈχaʊ̯̃d͡ʒi]

(martial arts) round (segment of a fight)

(figurative) a stage of a dispute, confrontation or other difficult endeavour


volume

From Old Galician-Portuguese volume, borrowed from Latin volūmen.

(geometry) volume (unit of three-dimensional measure)

(publishing) volume (issues of a periodical over a period of one year)

(publishing) volume (individual book of a publication issued as a set of books)

(chiefly historical) volume (bound book)


flat

pt-noun

flat (Brazil) m or (Mozambique) f (plural flats)

Unadapted borrowing from English flat (“apartment”).


display

Unadapted borrowing from English display.

O iRiver Spinn era um player de vídeo e áudio com estilo, do tamanho de um cartão de crédito, que tinha um display LCD de 3,3 polegadas.

2012, John E. Gamble, Arthur A. Thompson Jr., Fundamentos da Administração Estratégica - 2ed, AMGH Editora, →ISBN, page 242:


mal

From Latin malus. Compare Italian male, Sicilian mali.

As forças do mal cercaram o castelo.

(uncountable) evil (malevolent forces or behaviour)

Ela não fez por mal.

Não faz mal.

mal de Parkinson

Males como a SIDA e pneumonia são mortais.

Illnesses such as AIDS and pneumonia are deadly.

malady (any ailment or disease, especially a lingering one)


sal

Guinea-Bissau Creole: sal

Kabuverdianu: sal

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sal, from Latin salem (“salt, wit”). Compare Galician sal.

inh+

salt (sodium chloride, a substance used as a condiment and preservative)

(chemistry) salt (any compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base)

(usually in the plural) bath salt (any of several inorganic salts sometimes added to bath water)

(figurative) wit; the quality of being engaging


sal

Shorea robusta
Shorea robusta#Translingual

(rare) sal (Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree)


CEO

chief executive officer
chief executive officer

(business) CEO; chief executive officer (highest-ranking corporate officer)


set

set (group of things in maths, tennis, cinema, etc.)


henry

henry (SI unit for electrical inductance)


mana

Borrowed from Spanish mana, clipping of hermana (“sister”).

(colloquial, familiar) female equivalent of mano; sister


mana

Borrowed from English mana, from Maori mana.

(religion) mana (form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion)

(fantasy roleplaying games) mana (magical power)


torque

(physics, mechanics) torque (a rotational or twisting force)


sábado

From Old Galician-Portuguese sabado, from Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”). Doublet of sabá.


ano

Kabuverdianu: anu

From Old Galician-Portuguese ano (“year”), from Latin annus (“year”), from Proto-Italic *atnos (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂et-nos-, probably from *h₂et- (“to go”).
Cognate with Galician ano, Spanish año, Catalan any, Occitan, French, and Romanian an, Italian anno.

Rony ralhou com um aluno do primeiro ano particularmente pequeno [...]

2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 137:

Ron scolded a first-year student particularly small …


array

(programming) array (any of various data structures)


waffle

Unadapted borrowing from English waffle.


bi

(LGBT, colloquial) Abbreviation of bissexual (“bisexual person”).


bi

(Brazil, LGBT, slang) Abbreviation of bicha (“flammer”).


metal

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese metal, from Old Spanish metal, from Old Catalan metall, matall, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).

der

(chemistry) metal (any of a number of elements that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms)

metal (any of a number of a number of hard but malleable materials consisting of metallic atoms)

(heraldry) white (argent) or yellow (or) tincture on a coat of arms

(music, usually in the plural) brass instrument


cotton

Unadapted borrowing from English cotton.

cotton blend (a blend of cotton with other fibers)


workshop

Unadapted borrowing from English workshop.

ubor

workshop (intensive course of education in a specific subject)


tanto

Indo-Portuguese: tanto

Kabuverdianu: tántu

Macanese: tanto

Kristang: tantu

From Old Galician-Portuguese tanto, from Latin tantus.

Comi um tanto de torta.

A mercadoria foi entregue em dois tantos.

The wares were delivered in two portions.

an unspecified or irrelevant amount of something

A moeda de ouro vale cinco tantos mais que a de prata.

The gold coin is worth five times as much as the silver one.

an amount equal to a previously specified amount


outlet

Unadapted borrowing from English outlet.


genitor

pt-noun

genitor m (plural genitores, feminine genitora, feminine plural genitoras)

genitores (plural)
genitora (feminine)
genitoras (feminine plural)


mole

Learned borrowing from Latin mōlēs. Doublet of mó, an inheritance.


mole

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


hospital

Kabuverdianu: ospital

→ Middle Bengali: *আসপাতাল (*aśpatal)

q

influenced by English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">hospital</i>

Bengali: হাসপাতাল (haśpatal) (influenced by English hospital)

→ Hindustani:

desctree

Hindi: अस्पताल (aspatāl)
→ Caribbean Hindustani: aspataal
→ Fiji Hindi: aspataal

Urdu: اسپتال (aspatāl)

→ Kannada: ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ (āspatre)

→ Punjabi: ਹਸਪਤਾਲ (haspatāl)

→ Tetum: ospitál

From Old Galician-Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited hospedal.


sake

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).


gourmet

pt-noun

gourmet m or f by sense (plural gourmets)

Unadapted borrowing from French gourmet.

gourmet (a person who appreciates good food)


go

(board games) go (Chinese strategy board game)


anime

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

Princess: Anime? O que é isso?
Nakamura: São os desenhos animados japoneses, mas diferente do resto do mundo, são desenhos para todas as idades. Tem animes com muito sangue e batalhas de espada, mas existem animes de romance com histórias bem dramáticas também.

2009, Fábio Andrews Rocha Marques, O Livro Que Nós Criamos, Clube de Autores, page 81:


errata

Borrowed from Latin errāta. Doublet of errada.


box

box (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural boxes)

digital subscriber line
digital subscriber line

electronic equipment used for internet access (component of the digital subscriber line technology)

2003, Eileen G. de Paiva e Mello, Questão de Tempo, Thesaurus Editora, page 150

The oldest one wanted to pull off the stall curtain by hanging to it!

A mais velha procurava arrancar a cortina do box, pendurando-se nela!

(Brazil) shower stall; area of a bathroom, separated by a curtain or panes, where the shower is located


gram

→ English: gram


h

O evento é hoje, às 20h

used to indicate time in relation to a 24-hour clock

O atleta completou a corrida em 1h20min45s

The athlete completed the race in 1 hour, 21 minutes and 45 seconds

used to indicate any sequence of time in hours


n

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of não (“no”).


password

Unadapted borrowing from English password.

ubor

(computing) password (secret string of characters used to access a system)


manga

From Old Galician-Portuguese manga, from Latin manica. Cognate with Spanish manga, French manche. Doublet of Mancha.


manga

→ English: mango (see there for further descendants)

→ Middle French: manga

French: mangue

→ Galician: manga

→ Hunsrik: Manga

→ Spanish: manga

Borrowed from Malay mangga, via Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa) / Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy).

bor

Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy)


manga

(chiefly Portugal) manga (a comic made in Japanese style)


s

(Brazil, Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of sim (“yes”).


s

used to indicate any sequence of time in seconds


squash

Unadapted borrowing from English squash.


pet

(Brazil) pet (animal kept as a companion)


domingo

From Old Galician-Portuguese domingo, from a shortening of Late Latin diēs Dominicus (“Sunday”, literally “day of the Lord”). Doublet of domínico, which is a borrowing.


agora

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese agora, from Latin hāc hōrā. Compare Galician agora and Spanish ahora.


nadir

nadir (point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where the observer stands)


instrumental

(uncountable, grammar) instrumental (grammatical case)

(countable, music) instrumental (composition without singing)


menu

menu (printed list of dishes offered in a restaurant)

(computing) menu (list from which the user may select an option)


note

(Brazil, computing, colloquial) Clipping of notebook (“notebook computer”).


live

Hoje assisti à live que fizeram na semana passada.

Today, I've watched the stream that they did last week.

video stream (either a live stream or a recording of a past live stream)


short

Unadapted borrowing from English shorts.

(Brazil) shorts (pants that do not go lower than the knees)


hammer

Unadapted borrowing from English hammer.


pipe

(computing) pipe (the redirection of the output of a process directly into the input of another)


stop

stop (function or button that causes a device to stop operating)

(uncountable) a game in which the players write on paper one word from each category (animal, fruit, etc.), all beginning with the same letter, as quickly as possible. In Spanish: tutti frutti

(stock market) stop loss order (order to close one’s position if the market drops to a specified price level)

Precisamos dar um stop na nossa preguiça.

(Brazil, colloquial) stop; end (the act of putting a stop to something)

Ia sendo atropelado, porque o condutor não parou no stop.

I was almost run over because the driver did not stop at the stop sign.


e

From Old Galician-Portuguese e (“and”), from Latin et (“and”), from Proto-Indo-European *éti.


han

Han Chinese (member of the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)


latino

pt-noun

latino m (plural latinos, feminine latina, feminine plural latinas)

latinos (plural)
latina (feminine)
latinas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin Latīnus (“Latin”). Doublet of ladinho (“unmixed”) and ladino (“sly”).

doublet

Latino; Latin-American (someone from Latin America)

(historical) Latin; Latian (someone from Latium)


astral

Learned borrowing from Latin astrālis. By surface analysis, astro + -al.

(informal, usually with alto or baixo) vibe (the atmosphere of a person or situation)


kernel

Unadapted borrowing from English kernel.

(computing) kernel (central part of certain operating systems)

(calculus) kernel (a function used to define an integral transform)

(algebra) kernel (set of elements mapped to zero)


video game

Unadapted borrowing from English video game.

ubor

O jogo não funcionava no meu vídeo game e, sem alternativas, realmente eu precisava da ajuda do meu maior inimigo.

2015, Cido Pisani, Um muro entre nós, Clube de Autores, page 96:


cardinal

Borrowed from Latin cardinālis. Doublet of cardeal.


andebol

[ɐ̃.deˈbɔʊ̯]


TOC

Acronym of transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo (“OCD”).


view

(databases) view (logical table formed from data from physical tables)

(Internet) view (individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user)


MP

medida provisória
medida provisória#Portuguese


verlan

Unadapted borrowing from French verlan, verlan of à l’envers (“back to front”).

verlan (type of backslang used in French)


hardware

[ɐɾ.ðuˈɛ.ɾi]

Unadapted borrowing from English hardware.

Coordinate term: software

(computing) hardware (parts of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification)


link

(computing) link (text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document)


rifle

Borrowed from English rifle, from Middle English, from Old French rifler (“to scrape off, plunder”), from Old Low Franconian Old Dutch *rifillon, frequentative of Proto-Germanic *rīfaną.


nazi

(Portugal, historical) Nazi (member of the Nazi party)


Highlander

pt-noun

Highlander m or f by sense (plural Highlanders)

After the immortal title character of the Highlander film franchise.

É condição “Sine qua non”, para sair pilotando, utilizar os equipamentos de proteção, sob pena para os desobedientes, de serem multados e até ter a moto apreendida, como também para os que acham que são “Highlander” e percebem da pior forma que não são - depois que passam a morar debaixo de sete palmos de terra, ou então trocam as duas rodas motorizadas por uma cadeira sobre rodas ou uma muleta.

2013, André de Coimbra Santos, Vidas Sobre Duas Rodas, Clube de Autores, page 63:

It is a sine qua non precondition, before you go out driving [motorcycles], to use protective gear; with those who disobey facing the penalty of being fined or even having their motorcycle seized, or those who think they are “Highlander” and find out the worst way possible that they are not - after they start living six feet under, or exchange their two motor wheels for a wheelchair or a crutch.

O Maranhão tem, pelo menos, duas instituições: o imortal (mais porque não morre do que pelas obras que já escreveu), o Highlander da política, José Sarney, e o glorioso Sampaio Corrêa Futebol Clube.

2015, Felipe Andreoli, O pior futebol de todos os tempos, Panda Books, page 17:

Maranhão has at least two institutions: the immortal (more so because he won’t die than because of the works he has authored), the Highlander of politics: José Sarney, and the glorious Sampaio Corrêa Football Club.

Das duas vezes anteriores, em 1989 e em 2000, ele havia se recuperado satisfatoriamente, a ponto de Adriane se referir a ele como “nosso Highlander”, em referência ao protagonista do filme “Guerreiro Imortal”.

2019, Eugênio Esber, Todas as Páginas de Henrique Leão Kiperman, Bookman Editora, page 286:

He had recovered satisfactorily from the previous two [heart attacks] in 1989 and in 2000, to the point that Adriane would refer to him as “our Highlander”, after the main character of the film “Highlander”.

(Brazil, humorous) someone who survives or perseveres against all odds


game

(Brazil) electronic game (game played on an electronic device, such as a computer game, a video game or the like)


oxigênio

Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of oxigénio.


quinze

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinze, from Latin quīndecim.


jaguar

→ Catalan: jaguar

→ English: jaguar

Ultimately from Old Tupi îagûara. Doublet of jaguara.

Panthera onca
Panthera onca#Translingual

jaguar (Panthera onca, a feline of Latin America)


host

(networking) host (computer attached to a network)


onze

From Old Galician-Portuguese onze, from Latin ūndecim.

o onze inicial

(soccer) eleven (a football team of eleven players)


zero à esquerda

zero à esquerda m (plural zeros à esquerda)

Literally, “zero at the left”. An analogy to zeros written before a number. For example, both 020 and 20 have exactly the same numerical value, thus the leading zero before the 2 makes no numerical difference. Compare Spanish cero a la izquierda.

2013, José Fernandes de Oliveira Pe. Zezinho, Reflexões ao longo de uma fé: Sobre as angústias e as alegrias do ser humano, Ação Social Claretiana (Editora Ave-Maria) →ISBN
Portanto, jamais se proclame um zero à esquerda. Quando Antônio, desempregado há seis meses, declarou-se um zero à esquerda e disse que valia menos que um “jegue de beira de estrada”, estava dramatizando. Até os jegues de beira ...

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

Ela se casou com João? Aquele zero à esquerda!

Did she marry John? That good-for-nothing!

(informal, derogatory) a good-for-nothing (a person of low worth or usefulness or a person who is incompetent or ignorant in a particular area or task)


nove

Kadiwéu: noove, noobe

Macanese: nóvi

From Old Galician-Portuguese nove, from Latin novem (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.


ogre

ogre m (plural ogres, feminine ogra, feminine plural ogras)

ogres (plural)
ogra (feminine)
ogras (feminine plural)


dois

Alteration of dous, from Old Galician-Portuguese dous, from Latin duōs (“two”), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

two (the numerical value 2 or something with the value of two)

(card games) deuce (card with two spots)


uno

(card games) Uno (a card game played with special cards)


árvore

Guinea-Bissau Creole: arvuri

Kabuverdianu: arvi, arvori

Macanese: árve

From Old Galician-Portuguese arvor, from Latin arborem. Compare Galician árbore, Spanish árbol.

As árvores melhoram a qualidade do ar.


livro

Kabuverdianu: libru

→ Tetum: livru

From Old Galician-Portuguese livro, an early borrowing from Latin librum. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Italian libro, Catalan llibre, Occitan libre and French livre.

Livros são janelas abertas para o mundo.

(zoology) omasum (third part of the stomach of ruminants, which internally has numerous folds)


juta

Corchorus olitorius
Corchorus olitorius#Translingual

jute (a coarse, strong fibre made from the Corchorus olitorius plant)


CD

CD (compact-disc: a type optical data storage disc)


música

Papiamentu: musika

→ Tetum: muzika

Borrowed from Latin mūsica, borrowed from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “of a Muse”), derived from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”). By surface analysis, musa + -ica.

der

Que tipo de música você gosta mais?

What kind of music do you like the most?

music (melodic and rhythmic sounds made as art)

Esta música me lembra de minha infância

female equivalent of músico (“female musician”)

(figurative) music (any pleasing arrangement of sounds)


flor

Kabuverdianu: flor

Papiamentu: flor

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese flor from Latin flōrem. Compare Galician flor, chor.

inh+

1595, Luís Vaz de Camões, Rimas, Num bosque que das Ninfas se habitava


dino

(familiar) dinosaur (any of various extinct reptiles belonging to the Dinosauria)


theta

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of teta.


civil law

Unadapted borrowing from English civil law.

ubor

(law) civil law (legal system contrasting with common law)


iota

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta). Doublet of jota.


zeta

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta).


eclipse

Borrowed from Latin eclīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “eclipse”).


cor

Guinea-Bissau Creole: kor

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coor f, from Latin colōrem m, from Old Latin colos (“covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal”). Compare Galician cor and Spanish color.


cor

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.


download

Unadapted borrowing from English download.

ubor

(computing) download (file transfer to the local computer)


osso

From Old Galician-Portuguese osso, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os (“bone”), from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.
Compare Catalan, French, and Romanian os, Interlingua, Italian, and Sardinian osso, Spanish hueso.

cog

Holonym: esqueleto

O cão enterrou um osso.


bicicleta

Borrowed from French bicyclette, from Latin bi- (“two”) + Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”).

der

(soccer) bicycle kick (a kick in which the kicker leans backwards and kicks the ball back over his head)


talo

From Latin thallus, from Ancient Greek θαλλός (thallós).


uva

→ Apalaí: uwa

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Italian uva and Romanian auă.

grape:
any small fruit similar to a grape

(Brazil, figurative, colloquial) a good-looking thing or person


nick

Meu nick é Ícaro. Nick igual ao meu nome de verdade. Não invento apelidos na web, acho nada a ver ficar se escondendo atrás de outros nomes que não sejam o meu mesmo.

2013, Caio Riter, “voodeicaro.blogspot.com” (chapter 3), in Luiz Antonio Aguiar, compiler, Internautas: os chips reinventando o nosso dia a dia, São Paulo: Melhoramentos, →ISBN, page 19:

My nick is Ícaro. A nick just like my real name. I don't make up nickames on the Web, I find it nonsensical to hide behind other names that aren't my own.


casa

Guinea-Bissau Creole: kasa, kaza

Indo-Portuguese: casa

Kabuverdianu: kasa

Karipúna Creole French: kaz

Kristang: kaza

Macanese: casa

Papiamentu: kas (partly)

From Old Galician-Portuguese casa, from Latin casa (“cottage”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net; hut, shed”).

inh

casa onde não há pão, todos ralham e ninguém tem razão

Ele agora tem uma casa nas montanhas.

2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 135:

Aquela casa é grande.

structure serving as an abode of human beings

Casa de carnes.

building or institution serving as something other than residence, such as a shop

Casa de Bragança

Estou em casa.

O peão está uma casa à direita do cavalo.

The pawn is one square to the right of the knight.

(board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)

No número 12345, o algarismo 3 ocupa a casa das centenas.

In the number 12345, the digit 3 is in the hundreds’ place.

A casa encheu por causa do espetáculo dele.

(slang) a destined place for shows or festive meetings


decibel

decibel (a common measure of sound intensity)


pesca

fishing (the business or sport of catching fishes)


lunar

Borrowed from Spanish lunar, from Latin lūnāris.


CC

cartão de cidadão
cartão de cidadão#Portuguese


wok

wok (large round pan used in Oriental cuisine)


café

Kadiwéu: gaape

Borrowed from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Classical Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).

O café é uma das bebidas mais consumidas no mundo.

Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world.

Gosto muito deste café.
I like this café very much.

a café, an establishment selling coffee and other beverages, alcoholic or not, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises

Saí tão depressa de casa que até esqueci de tomar café.

I left home so hurriedly that I even forgot to have breakfast.

(Brazil) Ellipsis of café da manhã (“breakfast”).


sonar

(nautical) sonar (technique and device that uses sound propagation to detect underwater objects)


cesta

From Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē). Doublet of cista.

colocar todos os ovos em uma única cesta

a lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom

(basketball) a circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball


mu

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese muu, from Latin mūlum (“mule”). Doublet of mulo.


mu

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μῦ (mû).


beta

Borrowed from Latin beta, from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).


delta

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δέλτα (délta).

bor+

delta (landform at the mouth of a river)


ação

From Old Galician-Portuguese auçon, from Latin āctiōnem.


echo

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of eco.


markka

Alternative spelling of marca (Finnish currency)


ni

nu (the thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet)


pálpebra

eyelid (a thin skin membrane which moves over an eye)


lhama

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.


coala

Borrowed from English koala, from Dharug gula.


dezenove

Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of dezanove.


emu

Borrowed from English emu, from Portuguese ema (“rhea”).


dezanove

dezanoves (plural)
Portuguese spelling (European)

From Old Galician-Portuguese dez (“ten”) + e (“and”) + nove (“nine”).


pint

(measure) Alternative form of pinto, an English or American pint


LCD

Orthographic borrowing from English LCD.

(electronics, computing) LCD (liquid crystal display)


croissant

Unadapted borrowing from French croissant, present participle of verb croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescente.

ubor

(cooking) croissant (a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent)


escudo

→ English: escudo

From Old Galician-Portuguese escudo (“shield”), from Latin scūtum (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skei- (“to cut, split”), which is an extension of *sek- (“to cut”). The name of the currency comes from the heraldic shields on the coins.

der

(historical, numismatics) escudo (obsolete Portuguese currency)


democracia

From Ancient Greek δημοκρατία (dēmokratía). By surface analysis, demo- + -cracia.

(uncountable) democracy (rule by the people)

(countable, government) democracy (government under the rule of its people)


SO

sistema operacional
sistema operacional#Portuguese

(software) Acronym of sistema operacional.; OS; operating system


developer

pt-noun

developer m or f by sense (plural developers)

Unadapted borrowing from English developer.


utopia

From New Latin Utopia, the name of a fictional island, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not, no”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”).


resistor

resistor (component that implements electrical resistance)


eu

From Old Galician-Portuguese eu, from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆. Doublet of ego.

(chiefly philosophy) ego; self (individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)


pager

/ˈpɐj.d͡ʒɛɾ/

/ˈpɐj.d͡ʒɛɾ/

pager (device used for sending and receiving electronic messages)


milkshake

Unadapted borrowing from English milkshake.

milkshake (milk beverage with or without ice cream)


acusado

pt-noun

acusado m (plural acusados, feminine acusada, feminine plural acusadas)

acusados (plural)
acusada (feminine)
acusadas (feminine plural)


laurel

Borrowed from Spanish laurel, which came from Old Occitan laurier, which was inherited from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, which was derived from Latin laurus.


amargura

/ɐ.mɐɾˈɡu.ɾɐ/

[ɐ.mɐɾˈɣu.ɾɐ]


terminal

Borrowed from Late Latin terminālis, from Latin terminus.

terminal (section of a station or airport where passengers board the vehicle or craft)

(electronics) terminal (the end of a line where signals are transmitted or received)

(computing) terminal (device for entering and displaying data)

(computing) terminal (computer program that emulates a terminal)


ele

The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.


slogan

Unadapted borrowing from English slogan.

(advertising) slogan (phrase associated with a product)


hash

(computing) hash (key generated by a hash function)


acetileno

From French acétylène, coined by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, from acetyl, from Latin acētum (“vinegar”) (from aceō (“to be sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”)) + Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “substance”) (from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“juice, liquid”)).


requiem

[ˈhɛ.kɪ.ẽɪ̯̃]

[ˈhɛ.kjẽɪ̯̃]

[ˈhɛ.kɪ.ẽɪ̯̃]

[ˈhɛ.kjẽɪ̯̃]

[ˈχɛ.kɪ.ẽɪ̯̃]

[ˈχɛ.kjẽɪ̯̃]

/ˈʁɛ.kjɐ̃j̃/


rádio

pt-noun

rádio m (usually uncountable, plural rádios)

Borrowed from New Latin radium, from radio(actif) + -ium.


rádio

Abbreviations of various words beginning with radio-. Compare English and Spanish radio.


rádio

Borrowed from Latin radius. Doublet of the inherited raio.


mania

Borrowed from Latin mania or Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).

mania (excessive or unreasonable desire)


vodka

From Russian во́дка (vódka), diminutive of вода́ (vodá, “water”).


bagel

[ˈbɛɪ̯.ɡeʊ̯]

Unadapted borrowing from English bagel, from Yiddish בייגל (beygl); ultimately from Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *baug- (“ring”) plus *-il (noun suffix).


testa

From Old Galician-Portuguese testa, from Latin testa.

forehead (part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline)


madeira

From Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin māteria, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Cognates with Galician madeira and Spanish madera. Doublet of matéria, a borrowing.

(uncountable) wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)

wood (the wood of a particular species of tree)

(music, usually in the plural) woodwind instrument


madeira

Shortening of vinho da Madeira (literally “wine of Madeira”), after the Portuguese island of Madeira.

a type of fortified wine produced in the island of Madeira


tomate

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”), the tomato proper being xītomatl.

(mildly vulgar, usually in the plural) ball (testicle; compare colhão)


coelho

coelho m (plural coelhos, feminine coelha, feminine plural coelhas)

coelhos (plural)
coelha (feminine)
coelhas (feminine plural)

Kabuverdianu: kuedju

→ Javanese: truwèlu

→ Indonesian: terwelu

→ Malay: kuilu

Indonesian: kuilu

→ Tetum: koellu

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cõelho, from Latin cunī̆culus.


vector

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of vetor. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.


ovelha

pt-noun

ovelha f (plural ovelhas, masculine carneiro, masculine plural carneiros)

ovelhas (plural)
carneiro (masculine)
carneiros (masculine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese ovelha, from Latin ovicula (“little sheep”), diminutive of ovis (“sheep”), from Proto-Italic *owis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis or *h₃éwis (“sheep”). Compare Galician ovella, Mirandese oubeilha, Spanish oveja.


lava

From Neapolitan lava (“a torrent of rain which washed the streets”). Likely in the sense of “landslide, torrent” from Latin labes (“fall”), compare labina (“avalanche, landslide”).


switch

Unadapted borrowing from English switch.

(networking) switch (device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously)

(computing) switch (command line notation allowing specification of optional behaviour)

(programming) switch (construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression)


ar

From Old Galician-Portuguese aar, aire, aere, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).


zoo

jardim zoológico
jardim zoológico#Portuguese


psi

(countable) psi (name of the Greek letter Ψ)


phi

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of fi.


pop

pop (music intended for or accepted by a wide audience)


cola

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare Spanish cola, French colle, Italian colla.


cola

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Doublet of cauda, a borrowing.

A polícia está na cola dele.

track, trail (of someone or something to be followed)

(Brazil, slang) cheat sheet, a copy of content used to help to complete a school or university test, often illegally


cola

From a Niger-Congo language, or from Sudanese.


ship

Unadapted borrowing from English ship, clipping of relationship.

(Brazil, fandom slang) ship (a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional)


ampere

From French ampère, from French physicist André-Marie Ampère.


siemens

[sɪˈẽ.mẽɪ̯̃s]

[sɪˈẽ.mẽɪ̯̃s]

[sɪˈẽ.mẽɪ̯̃ʃ]

[ˈsjẽ.mẽɪ̯̃ʃ]


ola

wave (a group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit)


joule

joule (derived unit of energy, work and heat)


ohm

Named after Bavarian physicist Georg Ohm. See German Ohm.

named-after

ohm (the derived unit of electrical resistance)


hertz

/ˈʁɛʁ.t͡ʃis/

/ˈʁɛʁ.t͡ʃis/

/ˈʁɛɾ.t͡ʃis/

/ˈʁɛʁ.t͡ʃiʃ/

[ˈχɛχ.t͡ʃiʃ]


coulomb

Unadapted borrowing from French coulomb.


sievert

Named after the Swedish radiologist Rolf Sievert.


candela

Borrowed from Latin candela (cf. English candela). Doublet of the inherited candeia.

(physics) candela (unit of measurement of luminous intensity)


lux

Borrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.


negro

pt-noun

negro m (plural negros, feminine negra, feminine plural negras)

negros (plural)
negra (feminine)
negras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese negro, from Latin nigrum.

Pisando no céu enquanto eles se perguntam
 Como esse negro não cai
 Dizem que o céu é o limite
 Eles se perguntam
 Porque esse negro não cai

2018, “Minotauro de Borges”, performed by Baco Exu do Blues:

Stepping on the sky while they ask
 How this nigga don't fall
 They say the sky is the limit
 They ask themselves
 Why this nigga don't fall

(possibly offensive) black; negro (dark-skinned person)


zabaione

Borrowed from Italian zabaione, possibly from Latin sabaia (“Illyrian barley beer”, from an Illyrian word probably from Proto-Indo-European *sab- (“taste”)) + -one (augmentative suffix).

der

from an Illyrian word probably from Proto-Indo-European <i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro">*sab-</i> (“taste”)

zabaglione, sabayon (custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine)


tesla

Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

named-after

tesla (unit of measurement of magnetic flux density)


flood

(Internet slang) a flood of superfluous text messages


nynorsk

Nynorsk (one of the two major written standards of the Norwegian language)


hype

(colloquial) hype (exaggerated excitement or enthusiasm around something)


knockout

Unadapted borrowing from English knockout.


judo

From Japanese 柔(じゅう)道(どう) (jūdō, literally “the soft way”).


underline

Unadapted borrowing from English underline.

ubor

Como uma última precaução, não podemos usar espaços, pois o compilador pode entender como sendo outra váriavel não separada por vírgula e acusará um erro. No lugar do espaço, pode-se usar underline (_).

2008, Flavia Reisswitz, Análise de Sistemas Vol. 3, Clube de Autores, page 10:


gabardine

[ɡɐ.βɐɾˈði.nɨ]


mate

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

Ilex paraguariensis
Ilex paraguariensis#Translingual

(South Brazil) maté (Ilex paraguariensis) (a shrub native to southern South America)

(South Brazil) maté (a beverage prepared from the leaves of this plant)


miasma

Borrowed from Latin miasma, from Ancient Greek μίασμα (míasma, “pollution”).

der

miasma (noxious atmosphere or influence)

(medicine, historical) miasma (noxious emanation from swamps that was thought to cause diseases)


grid

(computing) grid (system distributed computers)

(motor racing) grid (starting positions of the drivers for a race)


hamburger

/ɐ̃ˈbuʁ.ɡeʁ/

/ɐ̃ˈbuʁ.ɡeʁ/

/ɐ̃ˈbuɾ.ɡeɾ/

/ɐ̃ˈbuʁ.ɡeʁ/

[ɐ̃ˈbuʁ.ɡeχ]

/ɐ̃ˈbuɻ.ɡeɻ/

/ɐ̃ˈbuɾ.ɡɛɾ/

[ɐ̃ˈbuɾ.ɣɛɾ]

/ɐ̃ˈbuɾ.ɡɐɾ/

[ɐ̃ˈbuɾ.ɣɐɾ]

Unadapted borrowing from English hamburger, from German Hamburger.


penumbra

From New Latin penumbra, from Latin paene (“almost”) + umbra (“shadow”).


computador

Learned borrowing from Latin computātōrem. Possibly a doublet of contador. By surface analysis, computar + -dor.


ordenador

[ɔɾ.ðɨ.nɐˈðoɾ]

[ɔɾ.ðɨ.nɐˈðoɾ]

[ɔɾ.ðɨ.nɐˈðo.ɾi]

(computing) sorter (program or algorithm that sorts data)


estado

From Old Galician-Portuguese estado, from Latin status (“status, condition”), from the verb stō (“stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Doublet of status.

(government) state (subdivision of a nation)


aprosexia

(psychology) aprosexia (difficulty focusing attention)


brioche

/bɾiˈɔ.t͡ʃɨ/

/ˈbɾjɔ.t͡ʃɨ/


wasabi

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 山葵 (wasabi).


alopecia

Borrowed from Latin alopecia, from Ancient Greek ἀλωπεκία (alōpekía).


altar

From Old Galician-Portuguese altar, from Latin altāre (“altar for burnt offerings”). Cf. also Portuguese outeiro.

inh

altar (flat structure used for religious rites)


baba

From the hypothesized Vulgar Latin *baba, ultimately imitative of children speech on the pattern of the repeated syllable ba.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(Brazil, vulgar) Cowper's fluid; pre-ejaculate


ido

From Ido Ido (“Ido”), from Esperanto ido (“offspring”).

Ido (artificial language reformed from Esperanto)


cheque

Borrowed from English cheque, from Old French eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh), from Persian شاه (šâh, “king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh), from Old Persian 𐏋 (xšāyaθiya, “king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ksayati (“he rules, he has power over”), from Proto-Indo-European *tke- (“to gain power over, gain control over”). Doublet of xeque and xaque.


scanner

Unadapted borrowing from English scanner.


wat

wat (a type of Buddhist temple common in Southeast Asia)


achiote

/ɐˈt͡ʃjɔ.tɨ/

Bixa orellana
Bixa orellana#Translingual

achiote (Bixa orellana, a tropical American evergreen shrub)

achiote (orange-red dye obtained from achiote seeds)


flip-flop

Unadapted borrowing from English flip-flop.

(electronics) flip-flop (electronic circuit able to switch between two states)


chi

(Portugal, colloquial) bear hug (any especially large, tight or enthusiastic hug)


tzar

pt-noun

tzar m (plural tzares, feminine tzarina, feminine plural tzarinas)

tzares (plural)
tzarina (feminine)
tzarinas (feminine plural)


ADN

Initialism of ácido desoxirribonucleico (“deoxyribonucleic acid”).


forte

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese forte, from Latin fortis (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).

der

strength (pronounced quality), strong suit


czar

pt-noun

czar m (plural czares, feminine czarina, feminine plural czarinas)

czares (plural)
czarina (feminine)
czarinas (feminine plural)

From Russian царь (carʹ), from Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from Old Church Slavonic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of César and kaiser.


demo

From Old Galician-Portuguese demo (“demon; devil”), from Latin daemon (“demon”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “god, goddess, divine power”).


demo

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


perfume

(cosmetics) perfume (substance providing a pleasant smell)


flamingo

Borrowed from English flamingo, from Portuguese and Spanish flamengo (“flame colored”), from Old Occitan flamenc (“flame colored”), from Latin flamma (“flame”) (compare Portuguese chama, flama).


agasalho

warm clothing, winter clothing (coat, jacket, sweater etc.)


poltergeist

[poʊ̯.teʁˈɡaɪ̯ʃt͡ʃ]

(parapsychology) poltergeist (a disruptive ghost)


cobra

Guinea-Bissau Creole: kobra

Indo-Portuguese: cóber

Kabuverdianu: kóbra

Korlai Creole Portuguese: kɔb

Kristang: kobra

Principense: kobo

Sãotomense: koblo

desc

→ Arabic: كُوبْرَا (kubrā), كُوبْرَا (kūbrā)

→ Belarusian: ко́бра (kóbra)

→ Bulgarian: ко́бра (kóbra)

→ Czech: kobra

→ Dutch: cobra

→ English: cobra

→ Irish: cobra

→ Japanese: コブラ (kobura)

→ Korean: 코브라 (kobeura)

→ Welsh: cobra

→ Esperanto: kobro

→ Finnish: kobra

→ German: Kobra

→ Greek: κόμπρα (kómpra)

→ Hindi: कोबरा (kobrā)

→ Hungarian: kobra

→ Ido: kobro

→ Italian: cobra

→ Lower Sorbian: kobra

→ Norwegian: kobra

→ Polish: kobra

→ Romanian: cobră

→ Russian: ко́бра (kóbra)

→ Serbo-Croatian: kȍbra

→ Slovak: kobra

→ Spanish: cobra

→ Swedish: kobra

→ Turkish: kobra

→ Ukrainian: ко́бра (kóbra)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Galician cobra and Spanish culebra.

inh+

snake; serpent (any reptile of the suborder Serpentes)

(strictly, prescribed) cobra (any snake of the family Elapidae)

(figurative, offensive) viper (malignant person)

(Portugal, colloquial) rope used to tie horses

(Brazil, figurative, offensive) deceitful woman

(figuratively, slang, vulgar) penis, dick, cock, prick


real

Learned borrowing from Late Latin reālem (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēy- (“thing; possession”).


real

Estou falando a real.

(Brazil, colloquial) truth (conformity to fact or reality)


real

From Latin rēgālis (“royal”), from rēx (“king”) + -ālis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

a former currency of Portugal and its colonies


doppelganger

(fantasy) doppelganger (ghostly double of a living person)


propaganda

From Ecclesiastical Latin propāganda, short for Congregātiō dē Propagandā Fide, "congregation for propagating the faith".


manual

[mɐ̃.nʊˈaʊ̯]


mote

From Provençal mot or French mot (“word”); see also Italian motto (“word”).


tsar

pt-noun

tsar m (plural tsares, feminine tsarina, feminine plural tsarinas)

tsares (plural)
tsarina (feminine)
tsarinas (feminine plural)


RPG

(games) roleplaying game (type of game in which the players assume the role of a character)


festival

From French festival, ultimately from Latin fēstīvālis.


drama

From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).Doublet of dorama.

der

Para de fazer drama.

drama (dramatic situation), big deal, fuss, scene


atlas

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Atlas”).


magazine

department store (store containing many departments)


skin

(computing) skin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)

(countable, video games) skin (alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game)


si

From Latin Sancte Iohannes (“Saint John”) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.


harmonia

Borrowed from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”).

der

(uncountable) harmony; agreement; accord

harmony (pleasing arrangement of sounds)


kitsch

kitsch (art of questionable aesthetic value)


secreto

Learned borrowing from Latin sēcrētus. Doublet of segredo.


scenario

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of cenário.


tuna

Borrowed from Spanish tuna (“singing group”).

bor+

(music) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes


corpus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpo and cós.

(linguistics) corpus (collection of writings)


pope

(Russian Orthodoxy) pope (a Russian Orthodox priest)


poeta

pt-noun

poeta m or f (plural poetas, feminine poetisa, feminine plural poetisas)

poetas (plural)
poetisa (feminine)
poetisas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin poēta, from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs).


bar

pub; bar (establishment that serves alcoholic beverages primarily)


bar

Originally from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).


pyra

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of pira.


ex

From the preffix ex- (“ex-, former”), as in ex-namorado ("ex-boyfriend") or ex-namorada ("ex-girlfriend").

(colloquial) ex (an ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner)


saber

From Old Galician-Portuguese saber, from Latin sapere (“taste, know”).
The 1SG reflects an original */ˈsajᵒ/, in common with other Romance languages, of uncertain origin. The present subjunctive forms show consonant metathesis (sapiām > */ˈsajpa/ > Pt. saiba).

knowledge; lore (intellectual understanding)


nude

nude (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural nudes)

(Internet slang) nude (photograph of a naked person)


hecatombe

Learned borrowing from Latin hecatombē, from Ancient Greek ἑκατόμβη (hekatómbē).

(figurative) disaster, catastrophe, calamity


net

net f (usually uncountable, plural nets)

Fiquei sem net por uma hora.

I lost my Internet connection for one hour.

(colloquial, by extension) Internet connection


primavera

[pɾi.mɐˈβɛ.ɾɐ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese primavera (“early spring”), from Late Latin prīma vēra, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + vēr (“spring”). Compare Italian and Spanish primavera, Romanian primăvară.

inh

a Primavera de Praga

(figurative, politics) spring (a period of political liberalization and democratization)


machina

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of máquina.


timbre

From French timbre, ultimately from Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon, “drum”). Doublet of tímpano.

der

timbre (quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume)


vespa

From Old Galician-Portuguese vespa, from Latin vespa.


torso

Borrowed from Italian torso, from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos, “Bacchic staff”). Doublet of tirso and possibly troço.

artistic work that represents the human torso, without head or limbs


major

Borrowed from French major. Doublet of maior.


major

brown-chested martin
brown-chested martin

(Brazil) brown-chested martin (Progne tapera)


vendo

Possibly from Latin Vendum or German Wende. Compare Spanish vendo.

(historical) Wend (a member of a Slavic people from the borders of Germany and Poland)

(historical, uncountable) Wendish (the language of the Wends)


hippie

Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

hippie (member of a nonconformist subculture of the 1960s)


lanterna

/lɐ̃ˈtɛʁ.nɐ/

[lɐ̃ˈtɛɦ.nɐ]

/lɐ̃ˈtɛʁ.nɐ/

[lɐ̃ˈtɛɦ.nɐ]

/lɐ̃ˈtɛɾ.nɐ/

/lɐ̃ˈtɛʁ.nɐ/

/lɐ̃ˈtɛɾ.nɐ/

Borrowed from Latin lanterna (“lantern; lamp”), corruption of Ancient Greek λαμπτήρ (lamptḗr, “torch”).

der

flashlight (battery-powered hand-held lightsource)

lantern (case of transparent material made to protect a flame, or light)

(architecture) roof lantern (type of cupola)

(Brazil, slang) the last place in a competition


lanterna

pt-noun

lanterna m or f by sense (plural lanternas)

primeiro colocado

antonym(s) of “contestant in the last place”

Papiamentu: lanterna

/lɐ̃ˈtɛʁ.nɐ/

[lɐ̃ˈtɛɦ.nɐ]

/lɐ̃ˈtɛʁ.nɐ/

[lɐ̃ˈtɛɦ.nɐ]

/lɐ̃ˈtɛɾ.nɐ/

/lɐ̃ˈtɛʁ.nɐ/

/lɐ̃ˈtɛɾ.nɐ/

(Brazil, slang) the contestant in the last place of a competition


sumo

From Old Galician-Portuguese çumo, from Arabic زُوم (zūm, “juice, sap”), from Ancient Greek ζωμός (zōmós). Cognate of Galician zume and Spanish zumo.


sumo

From Japanese 相撲 (sumō, “to mutually rush at”).


placebo

(medicine) inert medicine administered for suggestive or psychological purposes, which can alleviate ailments solely through the faith that the patient has in its powers

(pharmacy) substance without therapeutic effects, administered in a clinical trial to a certain control group

(pharmacy) active drug used in a condition in which it is inactive, with a similar objective

(figuratively) action or measure that is only intended to placate someone, without truly solving a problem


ser

From Old Galician-Portuguese ser, from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse. The forms sou (“I am”) and sois pl (“you are”) derive from a Vulgar Latin *sonō and *sutis.
Along the way, the verb absorbed Old Galician-Portuguese seer < Latin sedēre (“sit”). The latter supplied the present subjunctive of modern ser, where /-ʒ-/ reflects Late Latin /-(d)j-/, as in seja < sedeat).


alce

elk (UK), moose (US) (Alces alces, a large northern-hemisphere deer)


libra

From Latin libra (“Roman pound”). Doublet of arrátel. In reference to the English unit, a calque of English pound. Cognate with Galician and Spanish libra and Catalan lliura.

English or American pound, a unit of mass equal to 454 g

pound, British and other currencies derived from the use of a pound as a weight in silver

(historical) libra, Portuguese pound, a traditional unit of mass usually equivalent to 345 g and chiefly used for trade in medicines

(historical) Synonym of arrátel, Portuguese pound, a traditional unit of mass usually equivalent to 460 g


semifinal

(sports) semifinal (penultimate stage of a competition)


italiano

pt-noun

italiano m (plural italianos, feminine italiana, feminine plural italianas)

italianos (plural)
italiana (feminine)
italianas (feminine plural)

Italian (person from Italy or of Italian descent)


italiano

(uncountable) Italian (Romance language spoken in Italy)

(uncountable) the Venetian dialect spoken in Brazil


serra

From Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra.


nerd

nerd (intellectual, introverted and quirky person)


trailer

Unadapted borrowing from English trailer.

ubor

(film, television) trailer (short preview of a film)

(Brazil) caravan (furnished vehicle used as a dwelling)

(Brazil) trailer (vehicle towed behind another, used for carrying equipment)


fenestra

/fɨˈnɛʃ.tɾɐ/

Borrowed from Latin fenestra. Compare the inherited doublet fresta.


lagarto

Guinea-Bissau Creole: lagártu

→ Hunsrik: Lagart

From Old Galician-Portuguese lagarto, from Vulgar Latin *lacartum, from Latin lacertus, of uncertain origin.

lizard (any reptile of the order Squamata other than snakes)

(cooking) topside (outer side of a round of beef)

(Portugal, soccer, derogatory) a supporter, player or coach of Sporting Clube de Portugal


curry

(Brazil) curry powder (mixture of spices used in Asian cooking)

(Brazil) curry (dish made with curry powder)


libido

(psychology) libido (sexual urges or drives)

(psychology) libido (drives based on sexual instincts)


ratto

pt-noun

ratto m (plural rattos, feminine ratta, feminine plural rattas)

rattos (plural)
ratta (feminine)
rattas (feminine plural)


envelope

Borrowed from French enveloppe, from envelopper.


porto

From Old Galician-Portuguese porto, from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).

port; harbour (place on the coast at which ships can shelter or dock)


porto

vinho do Porto
vinho do Porto#Portuguese


wafer

(electronics) wafer (disk on which an electronic circuit is produced)


anal

From Latin annālis. By surface analysis, ano + al.


flag

(programming) flag (true-or-false variable)


topo

apex (moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.)