abactinal

(zoology) abactinal (pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal)


aboral

From ab- + oral; first element from Latin ab-.

(zoology) aboral (situated away from the mouth)


abada

→ English: abada

→ Italian: abada

→ Spanish: abada

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


acciaccatura

Unadapted borrowing from Italian acciaccatura.

ubor

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


abaxial

(botany, zoology) abaxial (away from the axis)


abscissa

(geometry) abscissa (first of two coordinates)


livre

Guinea-Bissau Creole: livri, libri

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”).


abysmal

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


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


PM

polícia militar
polícia militar#Portuguese


PM

policial militar
policial militar#Portuguese

(Brazil) Initialism of policial militar.


abdominal

pt-adj

abdominal m or f (plural abdominais, not comparable)


ananke

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


NASA

Orthographic borrowing from English NASA.

obor

National Aeronautics and Space Administration#English

NASA (acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration)


maquiladora

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

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


guerra

→ Papiamentu: gera

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guerra, from Early Medieval Latin werra.

inh+

war (organised, large-scale armed conflict)

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

(figurative) war (any large-scale conflict)


OMC

Initialism of Organização Mundial do Comércio.


sela

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


metadata

metadata (data that describes other data)


numeral

pt-adj

numeral m or f (plural numerais, not comparable)


andante

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

/ɐ̃ˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

/ɐ̃ˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

Cavaleiro andante.


andante

pt-noun

andante m or f by sense (plural andantes)

/ɐ̃ˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

/ɐ̃ˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/


andante

Borrowed from Italian andante (“going”).

/ɐ̃ˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

/ɐ̃ˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

(music) andante (played in a moderately slow tempo)


NATO

Orthographic borrowing from English NATO.


mundial

[mũ.d͡ʒɪˈaʊ̯]

[mũˈd͡ʒjaʊ̯]


menos

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

Menos pessoas correm.

Atirou com menos precisão.

fewer (a smaller number of), less (a smaller size or significance of)


Bahamas

/baˈʁɐ̃.mɐʃ/

[baˈχɐ̃.mɐʃ]

Unadapted borrowing from English Bahamas.

ubor

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)


SMS

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


Austria

Porque é que a Austria e a Prussia não estão cumprindo com a sua parte do contracto ?

1914, David Lloyd George, A Guerra Europea, Harrison and Sons, page 2

Why are Austria and Prussia not performing the obligations of their bond ?


Honduras

From Spanish Honduras, from honduras (“depths”). Doublet of funduras.


global

From globo (“globe”) + -al (“of or relating to”).

af

global (concerning all parts of the world)

(computing, of a variable) global (accessible by all parts of a program)


global

uma atriz global

(Brazil, of artists) working, having worked, or with potential to work, with Globo (Brazilian television network)


Argentina

/aʁ.ʒẽˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/

[aɦ.ʒẽˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ]

/aʁ.ʒẽˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/

[aɦ.ʒẽˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ]

/aɾ.ʒẽˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/

/aʁ.ʒẽˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/

Borrowed from Spanish Argentina, from Latin argentum (“silver”).

República Argentina
República Argentina#Portuguese

Argentina (a country in South America; official name: República Argentina)


plural

plural (consisting of more than one things)


wireless

Unadapted borrowing from English wireless.

ubor

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


Ethiopia

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


van

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


sombrinha

[sõˈbɾĩ.j̃ɐ]

[sõˈbɾĩ.j̃ɐ]

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


digital

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

digital; having to do with the fingers or toes

dealing with discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values

dealing with the display of numerical values


digital

impressão digital
impressão digital#Portuguese


Andorra

Andorra (a microstate in Southern Europe, between Spain and France)


singular

Learned borrowing from Latin singulāris. Doublet of senheiro.

(grammar) singular (referring to only one thing)


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.


Angola

Angola (a country in Southern Africa; capital: Luanda)


Guatemala

Borrowed from Spanish Guatemala, from Nahuatl cuauhtēmallān (“place of many trees”).

der

Guatemala (a country in Central America)


Tanzania

(Mozambique) Alternative form of Tanzânia: Tanzania (a country in East Africa)


Jamaica

Jamaica (an island and country in the Caribbean)


URSS

/ˈu ˌɛˌʁ‿ɛˈs‿ɛ.sɨ/

Initialism of União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas.


Madagascar

Brazilian Portuguese standard form of Madagáscar.


AIDS

pt-noun

AIDS f (usually uncountable, plural AIDS)

[ˈaɪ̯.d͡ʒiʃ]

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


Anguilla

Alternative form of Anguila; Anguilla (an archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, in the Caribbean Sea)


Cuba

Possibly from Arabic قُبَّة (qubba, “small tower”), or from cuba (“cask”).

A village and municipality of Beja district, Portugal


Cuba

Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)


Tonga

Tonga (a country and archipelago in Polynesia in Oceania)


CDC

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

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


Aruba

Aruba (an island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea)


Réunion

administrative region
administrative region

Alternative form of Reunião: Réunion (an island, overseas department, and administrative region of France, located in the Indian Ocean to the west of Mauritius and to the east of Madagascar)


Schadenfreude

Unadapted borrowing from German Schadenfreude.

ubor

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


América Latina

Latin America (parts of the Americas where Spanish or Portuguese are spoken)


um

head

um (feminine uma, masculine plural uns, feminine plural umas)

uma (feminine)
uns (masculine plural)
umas (feminine plural)

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+

Ontem de noite caiu uma chuva.

Estamos comendo um churrasco.

(usually in the feminine, pronounced slowly, emphatically and with a high intonation) indicates that what follows is exceptional; quite a; quite the

pronounced slowly; emphatically and with a high intonation; pronounced slowly; emphatically and with a high intonation


um

Chegou-me um e disse: "Olá!"

Comprei uns e me decepcionei.

element(s) of a previously mentioned class: one; some (in the plural)


Seychelles

/sɐjˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/

/sɐjˈʃɛ.lɨʃ/

Alternative spelling of Seicheles: Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)


Svalbard

Svalbard (an archipelago and territory of Norway in the Arctic Ocean)


Syria

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


China

Perhaps from Hindi चीन (cīn) and ultimately from Sanskrit चीन (cīna). Compare Malay Cina.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:China.


Fiji

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)


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

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


Costa Rica

Costa Rica (a country in Central America)


Malta

From Italian and Maltese Malta, from Arabic, from Latin Melita, from Ancient Greek, possibly from Phoenician 𐤌𐤋𐤈 (mlṭ), q.v.

República de Malta
República de Malta#Portuguese

Malta (an island country in Southern Europe; official name: República de Malta)

Malta (The largest island in the Maltese Archipelago)


Belarus

Synonym of Bielorrússia: Belarus (a country in Eastern Europe)


Samoa

Samoa (A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania)


Moldova

República da Moldova
República da Moldova#Portuguese

Synonym of Moldávia: Moldova (a country in Eastern Europe; official name: (formal) República da Moldova)


tuba

(music) tuba (a large brass musical instrument)


transcultural

pt-adj

transcultural m or f (plural transculturais)

[tɾɐ̃ʃ.kuʊ̯.tuˈɾaʊ̯]

(sociology, anthropology) transcultural (that involves different cultures; relating to different cultures)


perpendicular

perpendicular m or f (plural perpendiculares)

Borrowed from Late Latin perpendiculāris, from perpendiculum.


perpendicular

pt-noun

perpendicular f (plural perpendiculares)


mental

pt-adj

mental m or f (plural mentais, not comparable)

Borrowed from Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns. By surface analysis, mente + -al.


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”).


dual

pt-adj

dual m or f (plural duais, not comparable)


irregular

(grammar) irregular (not following an inflectional paradigm)


pink

hot pink (having a deep vibrant pink color)


Montreal

Montreal (the largest city in Quebec, Canada)


zero

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

Vieram zero pessoas.


cachaça

Uncertain, possibly from cachaço (“boar”).

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


caipirinha

a traditional Brazilian drink prepared with cachaça, lime juice, sugar and ice


quadrilateral

quadrilateral m or f (plural quadrilaterais)


wiki

pt-noun

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

wiki (website allowing collaborative editing of content)


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.

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

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


general

Learned borrowing from Latin generālis. Doublet of geral.

(military) general (said of the subcategory of armed forces officer with a rank above that of senior officer)

(military) general (said of the military with this subcategory)

(obsolete) general (including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole)


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)


anterior

/ɐ̃.tɨˈɾjoɾ/

/ɐ̃.tɨˈɾjoɾ/


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)


habitual

habitual (behaving in a regular manner, as a habit)

habitual (recurring, or that is performed over and over again)


lama

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


update

Unadapted borrowing from English update.


regular

pt-adj

regular m or f (plural regulares, comparable, comparative mais regular, superlative o mais regular or regularíssimo)

regulares (plural)
mais regular (comparative)
o mais regular (superlative)
regularíssimo (superlative)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin rēgulāris.


sequoia

Sequoia sempervirens
Sequoia sempervirens#Translingual

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


pupa

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

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


alegria

/ɐ.lɨˈɡɾi.ɐ/

[ɐ.lɨˈɣɾi.ɐ]

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


Abdera

Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece)

Abdera (a modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece)


animal

pt-adj

animal m or f (plural animais, comparable, comparative mais animal, superlative o mais animal or animalíssimo)

animais (plural)
mais animal (comparative)
o mais animal (superlative)
animalíssimo (superlative)

Learned borrowing from Latin animal. Doublet of alimária.

Em anatomia animal o termo é de uso muito comum, […]

2000, Julio S. Inglez de Sousa et al., Enciclopédia agrícola brasileira: E-H, Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, page 225

The term is very commonly used in animal anatomy, […]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:animal.

(derogatory, of a person) brute (senseless, unreasoning)

É, tava animal mesmo — Bia mal consegue falar.

2015, Juliana Rosenthal K., Save the Day, Buqui, page 52

Yeah, it really was wild — Bia can barely speak.


Queensland

Unadapted borrowing from English Queensland.


BA

Abbreviation of Bahia. (Brazilian state)


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.

der

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


voz

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


IA

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computing) AI (artificial intelligence)


ventana

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


Paraíba

[pɐ.ɾɐˈi.βɐ]

Named after the Captaincy of Paraíba, from Old Tupi paraaíba (“bad river”).

Northeast Region
Northeast Region#Portuguese

A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: João Pessoa

Captaincy of Paraíba
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro
pt:Paraíba


Rondônia

[χõˈdõ.nɪ.ɐ]

A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Porto Velho


Bahia

From earlier Bahia de Todos os Santos (“Bay of All Saints”), after a bay on its coast. bahia is an obsolete spelling of baía (“bay”); the name of the state was specially mentioned as an example of the exception for traditional placenames in the spelling reform that proscribed <h> between vowels.

Northeast Region
Northeast Region#English

Baía

dated in Brazil, occasionally used in Portugal

A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Salvador


CA

corrente alternada
corrente alternada#Portuguese

(electricity) Abbreviation of corrente alternada. AC


Alagoas

/ɐ.lɐˈɡo.ɐʃ/

[ɐ.lɐˈɣo.ɐʃ]

/ɐ.lɐˈɡo.ɐʃ/

[ɐ.lɐˈɣo.ɐʃ]

From alagoas (“lakes”).
The name appears as a competitor with the names of the lagoons of Manguaba, a lagoa do sul ("the southern lagoon"), and Mundaú, a lagoa do norte ("the northern lagoon"), already in the 16th century, when settlements were founded near the Alagoa do Norte and the Alagoa do Sul, the Alagoas, with the inclusion of the rest of the lagoons in the area.

A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Maceió


civil

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

Se não quiser levar um tiro, use roupas civis.

If you don’t want to be shot, use civilian clothing.

civil; civilian (not relating to the military or clergy)

Deves cumprir tua obrigação civil.

Estudo direito civil.

Guerra civil.

occurring between the inhabitants of the same country

Seja mais civil e pare de criticar as pessoas.

Be more civil and stop criticising people.

civil (behaving in a reasonable or polite manner)


civil

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


Santa Catarina

Catherine of Alexandria
pt:Santa Catarina (desambiguação)

Portuguese for "Saint Catherine", referring to Catherine of Alexandria.

Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Catherine

A state of the South Region, Brazil. Capital: Florianópolis


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)


Victoria

a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Victoria. Feminine of Victor


Pondicherry

Puducherry, Pondicherry (a city in Puducherry, India)


Amazonas

Amazon (a river in northern South America)

AM (abbreviation)

Amazonas (a state of the North Region, Brazil; capital: Manaus)


Nagaland

Nagaland (a state in northeastern India)


Chandigarh

Chandigarh (a union territory in northern India)

Chandigarh (the capital city of Chandigarh, India; capital city of Haryana and Punjab, India)


coral

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

lbor

(music) choral (written to be performed by a choir)


coral

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


vernacular

vernacular (pertaining to everyday language)


magia

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

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


Whitehorse

Whitehorse (the capital city of Yukon, Canada)


Goiânia

[ɡoɪ̯ˈɐ̃.nɪ.ɐ]

[ɡoɪ̯ˈɐ̃.njɐ]

[ɡoɪ̯ˈɐ̃.nɪ.ɐ]

[ɡoɪ̯ˈɐ̃.njɐ]

Goiânia (a municipality, the state capital of Goiás, Brazil)


Alberta

[aʊ̯ˈbɛɾ.tɐ]

[aʊ̯ˈbɛχ.tɐ]


Alberta

[aʊ̯ˈbɛɾ.tɐ]

[aʊ̯ˈbɛχ.tɐ]


Fortaleza

Ellipsis of Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora de Assunção (literally “Fort of Our Lady of the Assumption”).

ellipsis

Fortaleza (a municipality, the state capital of Ceará, Brazil)


Aracaju

/ɐ.ɾɐ.kɐˈʒu/

Aracaju (a municipality, the state capital of Sergipe, Brazil)


Perth

Western Australia
Western Australia#English

Perth (a city in Western Australia, Australia)


Curitiba

Uncertain. Suggested derivations include:
* Old Tupi curé / coré (“pig”) + tyba (“abundance”)
* Old Tupi curi (“Paraná pine”) + tyba (“abundance”)
* Guaraní Kuri'yty, corruption of Kuri'yndy (“grove of Paraná pines”)

Curitiba (a municipality, the state capital of Paraná, Brazil)


Adelaide

a female given name, equivalent to English Adelaide


Adelaide

Adelaide (the state capital of South Australia, Australia)


Vitória

a female given name, equivalent to English Victoria and feminine of Vítor


Vitória

A municipality, the state capital of Espírito Santo, Brazil

Victoria (the capital city of Seychelles)


Edmonton

Edmonton (the capital city of Alberta, Canada)


night

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


Goa

From Konkani गोंय (goiya), from Sanskrit गोमन्त (gomanta).


acre

Borrowed from Latin ācrem. Doublet of agre, agro, and ágrio.

sharp (unpleasantly acrid or tart in taste)


as

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

Encontrei-as na rua.

(third person personal) them (as a direct object; the corresponding indirect object is lhes; the form used after prepositions is elas)


Raipur

Raipur (a city, the state capital of Chhattisgarh, India)


Gandhinagar

Gandhinagar (a city, the state capital of Gujarat, India)


Panaji

Panaji (a city, the state capital of Goa, India)


phrase

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


Ranchi

Ranchi (a city, the state capital of Jharkhand, India)


Shimla

Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh#English

Shimla (a city, the state capital of Himachal Pradesh, India)


Kohima

Kohima (a city, the state capital of Nagaland, India)


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.


Srinagar

Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir#English

Srinagar (a city, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India)


Gangtok

Gangtok (a city, the state capital of Sikkim, India)


natal

Learned borrowing from Latin nātālis. Doublet of Natal.

native (relating to the place where one was born)


Agartala

Agartala (a city, the state capital of Tripura, India)


Lucknow

Lucknow (the state capital of Uttar Pradesh, India)


Chennai

Chennai (the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India)


negociante

pt-noun

negociante m or f by sense (plural negociantes)

businessman (someone who works at a commercial institution)


Jaipur

Jaipur (the state capital of Rajasthan, India)

Jaipur (a district of Rajasthan, India, containing the city of the same name)


Madras

Madras (former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India)


torta

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


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


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)


mapa

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

(dated)

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


Bangalore

Bangalore (a megacity, the state capital of Karnataka, India)


Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia)

Kuala Lumpur (a federal territory of Malaysia)


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)


molar

pt-adj

molar m or f (plural molares, not comparable)

molar (of or relating to the molar teeth)

(chemistry) molar (containing one mole of solute per litre of solution)


pata

→ Sranan Tongo: pata
Dutch: patta

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


rata

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


larva

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

lbor

larva (early growth stage of some insects and amphibians)


Hong Kong

/ˌʁõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡi/

/ˌʁõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡi/

/ˌʁõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡi/

[ˌχõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡi]

/ˌʁõ.ɡiˈkõ.ɡe/

From Cantonese 香港 (hoeng¹ gong², “fragrant harbour”).

bor

Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)


fórmula química

pt-noun

fórmula química f (plural fórmulas químicas)


liberal

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


liberal

pt-noun

liberal m or f by sense (plural liberais)


tundra

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

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


vocal

Learned borrowing from Latin vōcālis. Doublet of vogal.

vocal (of or relating to the voice or speech)

vocal (uttered or modulated by the voice)


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

(law) capital (involving punishment by death)

(rare, anatomy) capital (relating to the head)


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.

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


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.


pronominal

pt-adj

pronominal m or f (plural pronominais, not comparable)


exterior

A parte exterior do carro.

Qual é a política exterior do Brazil?

Este conteúdo é exterior à ementa deste curso.

This topic is outwith the syllabus of this course.

(formal) outwith; not encompassed by; not related to or covered by


legal

legal m or f (plural legais, comparable, comparative mais legal, superlative o mais legal or legalíssimo)

legais (plural)
mais legal (comparative)
o mais legal (superlative)
legalíssimo (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”). Compare leal, an inherited doublet.


interior

Learned borrowing from Latin interiōrem.

Não comemos os olhos nem os órgãos interiores.

We don’t eat the eyes nor the inner organs.


central

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


drive

pt-noun

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

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


funeral

Borrowed from Late Latin fūnerālis, from Latin funus.

funeral; funerary (relating to a funeral)


verbal

Learned borrowing from Late Latin verbālis. By surface analysis, verbo + -al.

lbor

(grammar) verbal (derived from, or having the nature of a verb)


cruel

From Old Galician-Portuguese cruel, from Latin crūdēlis.

O algoz era conhecido por ser extremamente cruel.

The executioner was known for being extremely cruel.

(of a person or creature) cruel (that intentionally causes or revels in pain and suffering)

Ele recebeu uma cruel mas merecida sentença.

He received a harsh but deserved sentenced.

(of a situation or occurrence) cruel; harsh; severe

Que dúvida cruel!

Foi uma batalha cruel.


mama

From Latin mamma. Compare Italian mammella, French mamelle.


criminal

pt-adj

criminal m or f (plural criminais, not comparable)

Borrowed from Late Latin or Juridical Latin criminālis (“criminal”), from Latin crīmen (“verdict; crime”).

Antecedente criminal.

(law) criminal (of or relating to crime or penal law)


make

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


chance

Borrowed from French chance. Doublet of cadência.


string

Unadapted borrowing from English string. Doublet of estrém.

(computing) string (sequence of consecutive text characters)


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)


Oceania

Oceania (a geographical region or continent in the Pacific Ocean)


base

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


horizontal

horizontal m or f (plural horizontais, not comparable)


vertical

vertical m or f (plural verticais, not comparable)


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)


flat

pt-noun

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

Unadapted borrowing from English flat (“apartment”).


mana

Borrowed from English mana, from Maori mana.

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

(fantasy roleplaying games) mana (magical power)


bi

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


bi

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


CEO

chief executive officer
chief executive officer

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


celestial

From Old Galician-Portuguese celestial, borrowed from Medieval Latin caelestiālis (“celestial”), from Latin caelestis (“celestial”), from caelum (“sky”).

bor

(religion) heavenly (relating to heaven)


waffle

Unadapted borrowing from English waffle.


mole

pt-adj

mole m or f (plural moles, comparable, comparative mais mole, superlative o mais mole or molíssimo, diminutive molinho, augmentative molão)

moles (plural)
mais mole (comparative)
o mais mole (superlative)
molíssimo (superlative)
molinho (diminutive)
molão (augmentative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese mole, from Latin mollis, earlier *molduis, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dus (“soft, weak”).


mole

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


mole

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


gourmet

pt-noun

gourmet m or f by sense (plural gourmets)

Unadapted borrowing from French gourmet.

gourmet (a person who appreciates good food)


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


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


manga

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


manga

→ English: mango, manga (obsolete) (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)


password

Unadapted borrowing from English password.

ubor

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


c

(Brazil, Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of você.


live

Hoje assisti ao 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)


instrumental

pt-adj

instrumental m or f (plural instrumentais, sometimes comparable)

(comparable) instrumental (acting as an instrument)

(music, not comparable) instrumental (having no singing)

(grammar, not comparable) instrumental (pertaining to the instrumental case)


Laura

a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Laura


Amsterdam

/ɐ̃ʃ.teʁˈdɐ̃/

/ɐ̃ʃ.tɨɾˈdɐ̃/

[ɐ̃ʃ.tɨɾˈðɐ̃]


artificial

Learned borrowing from Latin artificiālis.


astral

pt-adj

astral m or f (plural astrais, not comparable)

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

astral (relating to or resembling the stars)

(parapsychology, theosophy) astral (relating to a supposed supersensible substance)


cardinal

Borrowed from Latin cardinālis. Doublet of cardeal.

cardinal (describing a number that indicates quantity)


nocturnal

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


original

Learned borrowing from Latin orīginālis.

original (relating to the origin or beginning)


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


nazi

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


nazi

(Portugal, historical) Nazi (relating to Nazis, the Nazi party or Nazi Germany)


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.
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.

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

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


ordinal

ordinal (indicating position in a numerical sequence)


quinze

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinze, from Latin quīndecim.


nove

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


onze

From Old Galician-Portuguese onze, from Latin ūndecim.


árvore

Guinea-Bissau Creole: arvuri

Kabuverdianu: arvi, arvori

Macanese: árve, árvre

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

As árvores melhoram a qualidade do ar.


juta

Corchorus olitorius
Corchorus olitorius#Translingual

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


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

(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


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)


linear

linear (having the form of a straight line)

(mathematics) linear (being a first-degree polynomial)

linear (made in a step-by-step, logical manner)


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)


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.


pesca

fishing (the business or sport of catching fishes)


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


lunar

Learned borrowing from Latin lūnāris. Doublet of luar.


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

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


beta

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


wok

wok (large round pan used in Oriental cuisine)


cesta

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


natural

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese natural, borrowed from Latin nātūrālis.

inh+

Sou natural de Lisboa.

Água natural


ta

Contraction of te a (“her/it to you (familiar singular)”): feminine of to


ação

From Old Galician-Portuguese auçon, from Latin āctiōnem.


sexual

pt-adj

sexual m or f (plural sexuais, comparable, comparative mais sexual, superlative o mais sexual or sexualíssimo)

sexuais (plural)
mais sexual (comparative)
o mais sexual (superlative)
sexualíssimo (superlative)

Learned borrowing from Latin sexuālis. By surface analysis, sexo + -ual.


markka

Alternative spelling of marca (Finnish currency)


Toscana

administrative region
administrative region

Tuscany (an administrative region of Italy, located north of Lazio and south of Emilia-Romagna)


pálpebra

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


dezenove

Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of dezanove.


lhama

Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.


dezanove

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


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)


Nike

From the brand, from English Nike, from Ancient Greek Νίκη (Níkē).


universal

universal m or f (plural universais, comparable, comparative mais universal, superlative o mais universal or universalíssimo)

universais (plural)
mais universal (comparative)
o mais universal (superlative)
universalíssimo (superlative)

common to all society; universal; world-wide

common to all members of a group or class; universal


eu

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

I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

(Brazil, nonstandard, highly proscribed) first-person singular prepositional pronoun; me


terminal

Borrowed from Late Latin terminālis, from Latin terminus.

(relational) of or occurring during the conclusion or end of something

(of a disease) terminal (resulting in death)


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”).


das

Animais que elles tem em mais eſtima / Que todo o outro gado das manadas

1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, line 5

Animals which they hold in higher esteem / Than any other cattle of the herds

Contraction of de as (“of/from the (feminine plural)”): feminine plural of do


multicolor

multicoloured; multicolour (having multiple colours)


amargura

/ɐ.mɐɾˈɡu.ɾɐ/

[ɐ.mɐɾˈɣu.ɾɐ]


multicultural

pt-adj

multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)

multicultural (encompassing several cultures)


eternal

eternal m or f (plural eternais, not comparable)


rádio

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


mania

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

mania (excessive or unreasonable desire)


Belfast

Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland#English

Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)


rectangular

rectangular m or f (plural rectangulares, not comparable)

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


vodka

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


Guernsey

Unadapted borrowing from English Guernsey. Doublet of garnisé.

ubor

Guernsey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom in the English Channel)


venal

pt-adj

venal m or f (plural venais, not comparable)

(anatomy) venal, venous (pertaining to veins)

(figurative) easily bribable, capable of selling oneself; corrupt


Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates#English

Abu Dhabi (an emirate of the United Arab Emirates, on the southern Persian Gulf)

Abu Dhabi (the capital city of the United Arab Emirates)


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


à

Vou à praia.

Contraction of a a (“to the”): feminine singular of ao


Tashkent

Tashkent (the capital city of Uzbekistan)


Nassau

Nassau (a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)

Nassau (the capital city of the Bahamas)


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.


Tel Aviv

Borrowed from Hebrew תֵּל אָבִיב (tel 'avív).


Tarragona

Tarragona (a province of Catalonia, Spain)

Tarragona (a city, the provincial capital of Tarragona, Spain)


Verona

Verona (a city and province of Veneto, Italy)


Tanach

(Judaism) Tanakh (body of Jewish scripture)


Vladivostok

Russian Far East
Russian Far East#English

Vladivostok (a city and seaport in the Russian Far East, on the Sea of Japan, near North Korea; the administrative centre of Primorsky Krai)


Frankfurt

/ˌfɾɐ̃k.ˈfuʁt͡ʃ/

Unadapted borrowing from German Frankfurt.

ubor

Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)

Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)


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”).


Syracuse

Syracuse (a city in New York, United States)


Vancouver

Unadapted borrowing from English Vancouver.

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

Vancouver (a seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada)

Vancouver (a city, the county seat of Clark County, Washington, United States)


Barcelona

Barcelona (the capital city of Catalonia, Spain)

Barcelona (a province of Catalonia, Spain)


Alessandria

Alessandria (a city and province of Piedmont, Italy)


Bolzano

Trentino-Alto Adige
Trentino-Alto Adige#English

Bolzano (the provincial capital of South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)


Biella

Biella (a town and province of Piedmont, Italy)


Catanzaro

Catanzaro (a city and province of Calabria, Italy)


Avellino

Avellino (a town and province of Campania, Italy)


Lecco

Lecco (a town and province of Lombardy, Italy)


Cosenza

Cosenza (a city and province of Calabria, Italy)


Agrigento

Borrowed from Italian Agrigento, from Latin Agrigentum, possibly from the root words ager (“field”) and gēns (“clan, kin”), but more likely to be a corruption of Ancient Greek Ἀκράγᾰντᾰ (Akráganta), accusative of Ἀκράγᾱς (Akrágās), from ἄκρος (ákros, “at the edge”).

Agrigento (a province and city in Sicily, Italy)


Brindisi

From Italian Brindisi, from Latin Brundisium, from Ancient Greek Βρεντέσιον (Brentésion), said to be from Messapic.

Brindisi (a city and province of Apulia, Italy)


Benevento

Borrowed from Latin Beneventum and Italian Benevento.

Benevento (a province of Campania, Italy)

Benevento (the capital city of the province of Benevento, Campania, Italy)


Matera

Matera (a town and province of Basilicata, Italy)


Macerata

Macerata (a town and province of Marche, Italy)


Rovigo

Rovigo (a province and town in Veneto, Italy)


Piacenza

Piacenza (a city and province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Oristano

Oristano (a province of Sardinia, Italy)

Oristano (the capital city of the province of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy)


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.


Udine

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia#English


Varese

Varese (the capital city of the province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy)


Ragusa

Ragusa (former name of Dubrovnik, Croatia)

Ragusa (a mediaeval republic centred in Dubrovnik)


Cyclades

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


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)


Larissa

a female given name, equivalent to English Larissa

Larissa (a city, the regional capital of Thessaly, Greece)


nuclear

nuclear; central (to a centre around which something is developed or organised)

(biology) nuclear (relating to the nucleus of cells)

(physics) nuclear (relating to the nucleus of atoms)

nuclear (involving atomic energy or weapons)


Messina

Messina (a city and province of Sicily, Italy)


candela

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

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


se

From Old Galician-Portuguese sse, se, from Latin sē.

Ela se viu no espelho.

third-person singular and plural reflexive pronoun; himself; herself; itself; themselves

Eu se apresentei no teatro.

(nonstandard, colloquial, Brazil, highly proscribed) first-person singular reflexive pronoun; myself

Quando eles se conheceram?

third-person singular and plural reciprocal pronoun; each other; one another

Nós se beijámos.

(colloquial, nonstandard, Brazil) first-person plural reciprocal pronoun; each other; one another

E você se diz um professor!

second-person singular and plural reflexive and reciprocal pronoun, when used with second-person pronouns other than tu and vós; yourself; yourselves

Vive-se bem em Belém.
One lives well in Belém.
(literally, “Lives oneself well in Belém”)

Vão-se os reis, mas as nações ficam.

accessory, when it is used to embellish the verb without its omission impairing the understanding.

Ele morreu-se.

particle of spontaneity, when it indicates that there was spontaneity in the action by its agent.


Arlon

Luxembourg province
Luxembourg province#English

Arlon (a city in Luxembourg province, Belgium)


Formosa

→ English: Formosa

→ French: Formose

desc

→ Spanish: Hermosa (obsolete) (semantic loan)

→ Spanish: Formosa

Clipping of Ilha Formosa, from ilha (“island”) + formosa (“beautiful”).

Synonym of Taiwan, Taiwan (an island in East Asia)


hype

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


Alderney

Alderney (an island in the English Channel)


Saaremaa

Saaremaa (an island and county of Estonia)


gabardine

[ɡɐ.βɐɾˈði.nɨ]


cerebral

[sɨ.ɾɨˈβɾaɫ]

[sɨ.ɾɨˈβɾaɫ]

(relational) brain, cerebral cortex; cerebral


aprosexia

(psychology) aprosexia (difficulty focusing attention)


acerebral

[ɐ.sɨ.ɾɨˈβɾaɫ]

[ɐ.sɨ.ɾɨˈβɾaɫ]


penumbra

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


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


alopecia

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


forte

pt-adj

forte m or f (plural fortes, comparable, comparative mais forte, superlative o mais forte or fortíssimo, diminutive fortinho, augmentative fortão)

fortes (plural)
mais forte (comparative)
o mais forte (superlative)
fortíssimo (superlative)
fortinho (diminutive)
fortão (augmentative)

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

O homem forte levantou o carro.

capable of producing great force; strong; forceful

capable of withstanding great force; strong; durable

Senti um cheiro muito forte.

highly stimulating to the senses; intense; extreme; strong


Sofia

a female given name, equivalent to English Sophia


real

pt-adj

real m or f (plural reais, comparable, comparative mais real, superlative o mais real or realíssimo)

reais (plural)
mais real (comparative)
o mais real (superlative)
realíssimo (superlative)

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

der

(mathematics, of a number) being a member of the set of real numbers; real


real

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


real

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

having the air or demeanour of a monarch; regal


Longyearbyen

Longyearbyen (a village, the capital of Svalbard, Norway)


Flevoland

Flevoland (a province of the Netherlands)


Vaduz

Vaduz (a town and municipality, the capital of Liechtenstein)


demo

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


demo

pt-adj

demo m or f (plural demos, not comparable)

(computing, of a software) of limited functionality


virtual

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin virtuālis.

lbor

virtual (in effect or essence, not in fact or reality)


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+

(figurative, offensive) viper (malignant person)

(Portugal, colloquial) rope used to tie horses

(Brazil, figurative, offensive) deceitful woman

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


arrogante

pt-adj

arrogante m or f (plural arrogantes, comparable, comparative mais arrogante, superlative o mais arrogante or arrogantíssimo)

arrogantes (plural)
mais arrogante (comparative)
o mais arrogante (superlative)
arrogantíssimo (superlative)

/ɐ.ʁuˈɡɐ̃.tɨ/

[ɐ.ʁuˈɣɐ̃.tɨ]


Gelderland

Gelderland (a province of the Netherlands)


Alexandria

/ɐ.lɨ.ʃɐ̃ˈdɾi.ɐ/

From Old Galician-Portuguese Alexandria, from Latin Alexandrīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Alexándreia).

Alexandria (a city and governorate of Egypt)


manual

[mɐ̃.nʊˈaʊ̯]


propaganda

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


Coreia do Sul

[koˈɾɛɪ̯.ɐ du ˈsuʊ̯]

[koˈɾɛɪ̯.ɐ du ˈsuʊ̯]


peculiar

peculiar (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)


Groningen

Groningen (a city and capital of Groningen, Netherlands)

Groningen (a province of the Netherlands)


lexical

lexical (concerning the words of a language)


net

pt-noun

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


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)


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)


tuna

Borrowed from Spanish tuna (“singing group”).

bor+

(music) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes


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).


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)


pyra

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


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.


nude

pt-noun

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


From Old Galician-Portuguese na, clipping of ena, from en (“in”) + a (“the”).

Contraction of em a (“in the”): feminine singular of no


major

Borrowed from French major. Doublet of maior.


machina

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


Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh (the capital city of Cambodia)


vespa

From Old Galician-Portuguese vespa, from Latin vespa, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to weave”).


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


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)


Carthago

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


serra

From Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra.


fenestra

/fɨˈnɛʃ.tɾɐ/

Borrowed from Latin fenestra. Compare the inherited doublet fresta.


libido

(psychology) libido (sexual urges or drives)

(psychology) libido (drives based on sexual instincts)


nerd

nerd (intellectual, introverted and quirky person)


você

Syncope of vosmecê, elision of vossemecê, contraction of Old Galician-Portuguese vossa mercee (literally “your mercy”) (today's mercê) from Latin vostra + mercēs. Compare with Spanish usted (from vuestra merced (literally “your mercy”)) and Catalan vostè.

der

Pensei que você tivesse dito que ela estava só mandando você escrever!

2003, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 227

I thought that you had said that she was just ordering you to write!

(formal, semi-formal, or offensive in Portugal, informal or formal in Brazil) second-person singular personal pronoun; you

Você pode levar um cavalo até a água, mas não pode fazê-lo beber.

You can take a horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink.


elas

From Old Galician-Portuguese ellas, from Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

they (a group of people other than the speaker, entirely female)

Vi elas cantando.

(Brazil) third-person feminine plural personal pronoun used in all positions; they; them; it


flag

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


anal

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

(obsolete) annual, yearly (happening once a year)


anal

pt-adj

anal m or f (plural anais, not comparable)


papa

From Latin pappa or pāpa (“infant's cry for food”).

(figurative) something with a pasty consistency


Gdansk

Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship#English

Gdańsk (the capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)


via

From Old Galician-Portuguese via, from Latin via (“road”), which see for details.

(rail transport) gauge (distance between the rails of a railway)

medium (means or channel by which an aim is achieved)


via

Learned borrowing from Latin viā (“by way of”).

lbor

(historical) via (road built by the ancient Romans)


ela

From Old Galician-Portuguese ela, from Latin illa, feminine of ille. Cognate with Galician ela and Spanish ella.

Ela está aqui perto.

third-person feminine singular nominative pronoun she; it

Dei flores a ela.

third-person feminine singular prepositional pronoun her

A gente encontrou ela.

(Brazil) third-person feminine singular pronoun used in all positions she; it; her


cabra

pt-noun

cabra f (plural cabras, masculine cabrão or bode, masculine plural cabrões or bodes)

cabras (plural)
cabrão (masculine)
bode (masculine)
cabrões (masculine plural)
bodes (masculine plural)

→ Old Tupi: kabará

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabra, from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”). Compare Galician, Spanish, and Catalan cabra, Italian capra, French chèvre and Romanian capră.

inh

(vulgar, offensive, regional) bitch (despicable woman)


zona

From Latin zōna (“girdle, zone”), from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “belt, sash, zone”).

der

zone (in a broad geographic or geometric sense)

Ela mora nesta zona.

area, region (part of a city or country)

A cozinha está uma zona!

(Brazil, colloquial) red light district; brothel


similar

similar (having traits or characteristics in common)


fuga

Sua fuga da prisão foi bem planejada.

His escape from prison was well planned.


fuga

(music) fugue (piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices)


arma

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”). Compare Galician arma.


local

Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus. Cognate with the inherited lugar.


cinco

From Old Galician-Portuguese cinco~cinquo~cinque, from Latin cīnque.


rosa

→ Tamil: ரோஜா (rōjā)

From Old Galician-Portuguese rosa, from Latin rosa (“rose”).


architectura

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


corda

From Latin chorda (“cord”), from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”).


pluma

Borrowed from Latin plūma (“feather”) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Portuguese); compare the semi-learned Old Galician-Portuguese pruma. See also chumaço, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.

(geology) upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle (mantle plume)


Semana Santa

(Christianity) Holy Week (week preceding Easter)


maior

From Old Galician-Portuguese maior, mayor, from Latin māiōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“great”) + *-yos (comparative suffix). Doublet of major.

um desafio maior

Ele é maior idiota...


Gotland

Gotland (an island, province, county, and municipality of Sweden)


lingua

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


Douglas

Unadapted borrowing from English Douglas.

ubor

Douglas (the capital city of the Isle of Man, United Kingdom)


Cambridge

Unadapted borrowing from English Cambridge.


natura

Learned borrowing from Latin nātūra. Compare Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese natura.


quatro

From Old Galician-Portuguese quatro, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.


final

Borrowed from Late Latin fīnālis, from fīnis.


nuca

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ).


diagonal

(geometry) diagonal (joining two nonadjacent vertices)

diagonal (having a slanted or oblique direction)


diagonal

diagonal (something arranged diagonally or obliquely)

(geometry) diagonal (diagonal line or plane)


intro

(music) Abbreviation of introdução; intro


thread

Unadapted borrowing from English thread.

(computing) thread (one of several units of execution running concurrently)


mongol

Borrowed from Mongolian монгол (mongol). Doublet of mogol.

Mongolian (native or inhabitant of Mongolia)

(offensive) retard; idiot (generic term of abuse)


mongol

pt-adj

mongol m or f (plural mongóis, not comparable)


biblioteca

Borrowed from Latin bibliothēca, from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “library”).


tapioca

→ Armenian: տապիոկա (tapioka)

→ Esperanto: tapioko

desctree

→ English: tapioca
→ Maori: tapioka
→ Marshallese: tapioka
→ Tagalog: tapyoka

→ Finnish: tapioka

→ French: tapioca
→ Ottoman Turkish: تاپیوقا
Turkish: tapyoka
→ Romanian: tapiocă

→ German: Tapioka

→ Indonesian: tapioka

→ Japanese: タピオカ

→ Spanish: tapioca

tapioca (starchy food made from cassava)


alma

From Old Galician-Portuguese alma, from Latin anima (“soul, breath”). Doublet of anima, borrowed from the same source.

Ó sino da minha aldeia, / Dolente na tarde calma, / Cada tua badalada / Soa dentro da minha alma.

1913, Fernando Pessoa, Ó sino da minha aldeia

Oh bell of my village, / Mournful in this peaceful afternoon, / Each one of your tollings / Resounds in my soul.


ilha

Kabuverdianu: ilha

From Old Galician-Portuguese illa, from Old Catalan illa, from Vulgar Latin *īsula, from Latin īnsula, whence also English isle. Doublet of inherited ínsua, from Old Galician-Portuguese inssoa, as well as the learned borrowing ínsula; both of these are rare or specialist.

(slang) a group of houses in a poor area of a town

(figuratively, popular) a person who stands alone in defense of an idea


neve

Kabuverdianu: nevi

From Old Galician-Portuguese neve, from Vulgar Latin *nĕvem, alteration of Latin nivem.

1902, Fernando Pessoa, Quando ela passa

When I sit at the window / I see through the panes clouded by snow / The sweet image of her / When (she) passes… passes… passes…

Quando eu me sento à janela / P'los vidros qu'a neve embaça / Vejo a doce imagem d'ela / Quando passa… passa… passa…


pera

From Old Galician-Portuguese pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.


ghostwriter

pt-noun

ghostwriter m or f by sense (plural ghostwriters)

Unadapted borrowing from English ghostwriter.

ubor

ghostwriter (professional writer for another person)


Jesus

Relatinised from Old Galician-Portuguese Jesu, from Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew ישוע (y'hoshúa).

a female given name, shortened from "Maria de Jesus"


raison d'être

Unadapted borrowing from French raison d’être.


actual

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


da

From Old Galician-Portuguese da, from de (“of”) + a (“feminine definite article”).

Contraction of de a (“of/from the (feminine singular)”): feminine singular of do


agricultural

pt-adj

agricultural m or f (plural agriculturais)


pelúcia

Ursinho de pelúcia.

(chiefly Brazil) plush, a soft tissue, made of wool or silk, faux fur


oca

a Native American hut, especially one made from plant material such as bamboo, tree trunks, straw and palm leaves


oca

(dated, colloquial) Alternative form of ocra (“ochre clay”)


oca

Oxalis tuberosa
Wikispecies:Oxalis tuberosa

oca (Oxalis tuberosa, a plant grown for its edible tuber)


oca

(historical, rare) oka (Ottoman unit of weight)


superficial

superficial m or f (plural superficiais)

Learned borrowing from Latin superficiālis. By surface analysis, superfície + -al.

lbor

camada superficial

ferida superficial

superficial; shallow (not reaching or penetrating deep)

pessoa superficial

shallow (overly concerned with superficial matters)

análise superficial

superficial (lacking thoroughness or attention to minor details)


Turquia

Turkey (a country located in Thrace in southeastern Europe and Anatolia in southwestern Asia; capital: Ancara)


Teresa

a female given name, equivalent to English Teresa


lira

Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.


agenda

agenda (booklet where a schedule is kept)


ancestral

[ɐ̃.seʃˈtɾaʊ̯]

[ɐ̃.sɨʃˈtɾaɫ]

[ɐ̃.sɨʃˈtɾaɫ]

From the Old French adjective ancestrel, from the noun ancestre (“ancestor”), from Late Latin antecessor (“predecessor”), an agent noun from the past participle stem of Latin antecedere (“to proceed”), from the prefix ante- with the infinitive cedere (“to go”), the former from Proto-Italic *kezdō (“to avoid or to go away”), from the Proto-Indo-European *ked- (“to yield or to go”).


ancestral

pt-noun

ancestral m or f by sense (plural ancestrais)

[ɐ̃.seʃˈtɾaʊ̯]

[ɐ̃.sɨʃˈtɾaɫ]

[ɐ̃.sɨʃˈtɾaɫ]

ancestor; forefather (someone from whom a person is descended)


cinta

From Late Latin cincta, plural of cinctum, variant of cinctus.

band (strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together)


anosmia

(pathology) anosmia (the inability to smell)


ornamental

From ornamento (“ornament”) + -al (“of or relating to”).


fraternal

Borrowed from Medieval Latin frāternālis (“fraternal”), from Latin frāternus (“of or relating to a brother, fraternal”), from frāter (“brother”).

der

brotherly (of or characteristic of brothers)


AAC

Associação Académica de Coimbra
w:Associação Académica de Coimbra

Initialism of Associação Académica de Coimbra (“Coimbra Academic Association”).


UNESCO

Unadapted borrowing from English UNESCO.


angular

Borrowed from Latin angulāris (“angular”), from angulus (“corner; angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engulos.

(geometry) angular (of or relating to angles)


hobbit

hobbit (fictional small humanoid creature)


vela

Kadiwéu: weela

Deverbal from velar. Less likely inherited from Latin vigilia.

Acendi uma vela para iluminar a sala.

vela de ignição
vela de ignição#Portuguese


vela

From Old Galician-Portuguese vela, an early borrowing from Latin vēla, plural of vēlum (“sail of a ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg (“to weave a web”). Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese vea.

A embarcação tem dois mastros com velas quadradas.

The ship has two masts with square sails.

Vela é um desporto olímpico.


rival

rival (competitor with the same objective)


episcopal

(ecclesiastical) episcopal (relating to bishops)


naval

pt-adj

naval m or f (plural navais, not comparable)

From Latin nāvālem, accusative singular form of nāvālis (“of ships”), from nāvis (“ship”).


algolagnia

algolagnia (sexual pleasure from suffering pain)


Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein (the judicial capital of South Africa)


-ona

Macanese: -óna, -róna


vitamina

As vitaminas são essenciais para o nosso metabolismo

Vitamins are essential for our metabolism.

Adoro vitamina de banana.

(Brazil, colloquial) fruit milk shake (a sweet, creamy beverage made by mixing milk and fruit)


semibreve

[sɨ.miˈβɾɛ.βɨ]

(music) semibreve (musical note four beats long in 4/4 time)


massa

From Old Galician-Portuguese massa, from Latin massa (“mass; dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”), from μάσσω (mássō, “to handle; to knead”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ-.

(cooking) dough (mix of flour and other ingredients)

a concentration of substance or tightly packed objects

(construction) mortar (mixture for bonding bricks)

(uncountable, physics) mass (quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume)


massa

(Brazil, informal) cool (in fashion, part of or fitting the in-crowd)

Aprender línguas é muito massa!

(Brazil, informal) great; amazing; awesome


-ase

pt-noun

-ase f (noun-forming suffix, plural -ases)

(chemistry) -ase (forms the names of enzymes)


fronte

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fronte f, from Latin frontem f.


imperial

«Traga-me mais uma imperial», disse eu ao empregado. Tinha uma praticamente cheia, mas não gosto de ser apanhado desprevenido. O Juvenal julgou que era para ele e agradeceu, eu disse-lhe «nada», e peguei na imperial, passei as ...

2013, Afonso Cruz, Alice Vieira, André Gago, Catarina Fonseca, David Machado, Isabel Stidwell, José Fanha, A misteriosa mulher da ópera, Leya, page 155

(please add an English translation of this quotation)


minúscula

(orthography) minuscule (lower-case letter)


sestra

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sẽestra, from Latin Latin sinistra.


sílaba

From Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ).


colher de sobremesa

pt-noun

colher de sobremesa f (plural colheres de sobremesa)

[kuˈʎɛɾ ðɨ su.βɾɨˈme.zɐ]

[kuˈʎɛɾ ðɨ su.βɾɨˈme.zɐ]

tablespoon (American), dessertspoon (Australian) (a spoon for eating cereal, etc.)


colher de sopa

colher de sopa f (plural colheres de sopa)

[kuˈʎɛɾ ðɨ ˈso.pɐ]

[kuˈʎɛɾ ðɨ ˈso.pɐ]

a spoon the size and shape of an Australian tablespoon, bigger than an American tablespoon but the same shape, unlike a soupspoon but still used for soup


colher de café

colher de café f (plural colheres de café)

/kuˈʎɛɾ dɨ kɐˈfɛ/

[kuˈʎɛɾ ðɨ kɐˈfɛ]

/kuˈʎɛɾ dɨ kɐˈfɛ/

[kuˈʎɛɾ ðɨ kɐˈfɛ]

[kuˈʎɛ.ɾi ðɨ kɐˈfɛ]


expert

/ɛksˈpɛʁt͡ʃ/

/ɛksˈpɛʁt͡ʃ/

/ɛksˈpɛɾt͡ʃ/

/ˈɛkʃ.pɛʁt͡ʃ/

[ˈɛkʃ.pɛχt͡ʃ]

/ɛkʃˈpɛʁ.t͡ʃi/

[ɛkʃˈpɛχ.t͡ʃi]

/ɛkʃˈpɛʁt͡ʃ/

[ɛkʃˈpɛχt͡ʃ]

/ɛksˈpɛɻt͡ʃ/

Unadapted borrowing from English expert. Doublet of esperto and experto.

expert (person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given field)


carta

Papiamentu: karta (with Spanish)

→ Japanese: カルタ (karuta)

→ Swahili: karata

From Old Galician-Portuguese carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”). Doublet of cartaz.

der

chart, map (visual representation of an area)

(card games) playing card (any of the 52 rectangular pieces of card used to play games)

(law) charter (document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges)

(Portugal, São Paulo) driver's license (an official personal document that permits driving a vehicle)


gasolina

Borrowed from French gazoline, from English gasoline.


sova

(informal) beating; spanking (act physically beating a person)


anda

(usually in the plural) stilt (a pole with footrests used by entertainers)

(in the plural, Christianity) a framework for carrying religions images during a procession


baliza

→ Catalan: balisa

→ French: balise

→ Spanish: baliza

From Mozarabic, from Late Latin *palitium, from Latin pālus.

(sports, Portugal) goal (an area into which the players attempt to put an object)


baliza

person who goes ahead in a parade doing acrobatics with a baton: the baton twirler


colher

Kabuverdianu: kudjer

Itsekiri: ukujẹ́rẹ̀

From Old Galician-Portuguese cullar, collar, from Latin cochleārem (“spoon”). The Old Portuguese word was influenced by Old French cuiller (French cuiller / cuillère), from the same Latin root. Cognate with Galician culler, French cuillère, Spanish cuchara, Catalan cullera. Compare with caracol (“snail”).


PSP

(Portugal) Abbreviation of Polícia de Segurança Pública.


sebe

hedge (thicket of bushes planted in a row)


dachshund

pt-noun

dachshund m or f by sense (plural dachshunds)


coma

Learned borrowing from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma).


profeta

(Madeira, informal) of or relating to Porto Santo


profeta

profeta m or f by sense (plural profetas)


malina

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin maligna.

slbor

(dated, pathology) typhoid fever (a deadly disease characterised by severe fever)


marimba

marimba (musical instrument similar to a xylophone)


rutabaga

Brassica napus
Brassica napus#Translingual

rutabaga (Brassica napus, a plant with an edible root)


Liliana

a female given name, equivalent to English Lilian


fresa

Borrowed from French fraise or from Vulgar Latin *frēsāre, from frēsum, past participle of Latin frendēre (“to grind”). See also Spanish fresa.


appoggiatura

pt-noun

appoggiatura f (plural appoggiaturas or appoggiature)

appoggiaturas (plural)
appoggiature (plural)


banca

booth (a small stall for the display and sale of goods)

newsstand (open stall where newspapers and magazines are on sale)

(Brazil) jury (a group of people whose aim is to judge something)


pulga

From Old Galician-Portuguese pulga, from the hypothetical Vulgar Latin word *pūlica, from Latin pūlex (“flea”), from Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (“flea”).


WiFi

WiFi m or f (usually uncountable, plural WiFis)


lua

Guinea-Bissau Creole: lua

Kabuverdianu: lua

→ English: Lua

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lũa, from Latin lūna (“moon”), from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.
Cognate with Galician lúa, Spanish, Italian, and Occitan luna, Catalan lluna, French lune, and Romanian lună.

inh+

Marte tem duas luas, Fobos e Deimos.

(astronomy) moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)


ocarina

(music) ocarina (an oval wind instrument)


coach

life coach (professional who helps clients to achieve their personal goals)


vicissitude

vicissitude (regular change or succession from one thing to another)


Wi-Fi

pt-noun

Wi-Fi m or f (usually uncountable, plural Wi-Fis)


maçã

From Old Galician-Portuguese maçãa, from Vulgar Latin māla Mattiāna (literally “apples of Mattium”), though some theorize that Mattiāna was an Iberian pronunciation of the Gallo-Roman word matianium, a golden apple named after Gaius Matius, a horticulturist and friend of Caesar.
Cognate with Galician mazá, Aragonese and Asturian mazana, Mirandese maçana and Spanish manzana (Old Spanish maçana).


radical

pt-noun

radical m or f by sense (plural radicais)

radical (person holding unorthodox views)


radical

(Brazil, slang) excellent; awesome; thrilling


filial

filial (pertaining to a son or daughter)


toga

toga (loose outer garment worn by the citizens of ancient Rome)


vez

From Old Galician-Portuguese vez (displacing vegada), from Latin vicis (“change, alternation”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to wind, bend”).

der

Ver-te-ei outra vez.

Vencemos quatro vezes seguidas.

move (chance to use something shared in sequence with others)

(games) turn; move (one’s chance to make a move in a game having two or more players)


hexadecimal

pt-adj

hexadecimal m or f (plural hexadecimais)

(computing, of a number) hexadecimal (expressed in base 16)


clave

Learned borrowing from Latin clāvem. Doublet of chave.


sub

a miley casou em casa e as subs fazendo aquele auê todo p revelação de sexo de bebê kkkkkkkkkkk aiai

2018 December 26, Letícia (@leticiaramosccp), Twitter

As subs que eu sigo no Instagram não estão me dando stories o suficiente

2018 December 28, daniella (@dnifurtado), Twitter

(slang) Alternative form of subcelebridade


madame

madam (polite term of address to a woman)


câmara

Guinea-Bissau Creole: kamara

Indo-Portuguese: cambr, cambra

Kabuverdianu: kánbra

Kristang: kambra

→ Gujarati: કમરો (kamro)

→ Hindi: कमरा (kamrā)

→ Tetum: kámara

→ Urdu: کمرہ (kamra)

From Old Galician-Portuguese camara, from Vulgar Latin camara, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára).

câmara municipal
câmara municipal#Portuguese

(Portugal) Alternative form of câmara municipal


dental

dental m or f (plural dentais, not comparable)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (“a tooth”). By surface analysis, dente + -al.

(anatomy, dentistry) dental (of or concerning teeth, cleaning teeth)


prima donna

pt-noun

prima donna f (plural prima donnas or primas donnas)

prima donnas (plural)
primas donnas (plural)


bicameral

From bi- + câmera + -al; cf. French bicaméral, English bicameral.

(politics) bicameral (having two separate legislative chambers)


adverbial

[ɐ.ðvɨɾˈβjaɫ]

[ɐ.ðvɨɾˈβjaɫ]

[ɐ.ðβɨɾˈβjaɫ]


Okinawa

Okinawa (an island, city, and prefecture of Japan)


mesa

→ Javanese: méja

→ Kadiwéu: nameeja

→ Kaingang: mẽja

→ Kituba: mesa

→ Lingala: mésá

→ Luganda: mmeeza

→ Malay: meja
Indonesian: meja

→ Malayalam: മേശ (mēśa)

Papiamentu: mesa

→ Sinhalese: මේසය (mēsaya)

→ Tamil: மேசை (mēcai), மேஜை (mējai)

From Old Galician-Portuguese mesa (“table”), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa (“table”).
Cognate with Galician mesa, Spanish mesa, French moise, Italian mensa and Romanian masă.
Not related to Persian میز (mêz, “table”). As both it and Portuguese mesa have been borrowed into different languages of southern Asia, they are sometimes confused by etymologists.

José, põe a mesa, por favor.
José, please set the table.

Cumprimentou-as tocando a aba do chapéu — pois ele usava chapéu, um fedora verde imaculado, além de luvas cor de lima —, e em seguida caminhou até a mesa onde estavam as mulheres, que deram risada.
He greeted them by touching the brim of his hat – for he wore a hat, an immaculate green fedora, and lime-colored gloves – and then walked to the table where the women were, who gave a laugh.

2015, Neil Gaiman, Os filhos de Anansi, Editora Intrinseca, page 6

Portugal tem boa mesa e bom vinho.


arse

(poetry, music) arsis (the stronger part of a measure or foot)


catapulta

Learned borrowing from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs), from κατά (katá, “downwards, into, against”), from πάλλω (pállō, “to poise or sway a missile before it is thrown”).


decimal

Borrowed from Late Latin decimālis, from Latin decimus.

(arithmetic, computing) decimal (concerning numbers expressed in decimal or calculations using decimal)


soprano

soprano m or f by sense (plural sopranos)

Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superanus, from Latin super. Doublet of soberano.

soprano (person singing with a soprano voice)


gente

From Old Galician-Portuguese gente, from Latin gentem, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis.

Tinha uma gente esperando na porta.

There were some people waiting at the door.

A gloriosa história da gente portuguesa.

The glorious history of the Portuguese people.

people
persons forming a distinct identity

Gente, preciso de ajuda.

guys, folks (informal address to a group of people)

(historical, Ancient Rome) gens (in Ancient Rome, a group of people descending from a common ancestor)


anima

Unadapted borrowing from Latin anima. Doublet of alma, inherited from the same source.

(Jungian psychology) anima (unconscious feminine aspect of a male)


pareidolia

From Ancient Greek παρα- (para-, “alongside”) + εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image”).

der

pareidolia (tendency to interpret vague stimuli as something familiar)


vulgar

popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical


gata

From Old Galician-Portuguese gata, from Late Latin catta.


ducal

pt-adj

ducal m or f (plural ducais, not comparable)


placenta

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).


geometria

Borrowed from Latin geometria, from Ancient Greek.

(mathematics) geometry (branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships)


pasta

From Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá).

inh

(cooking) dough (mix of flour and other ingredients)

Eu gosto de escovar os dentes com essa pasta de dente.

I like to brush my teeth with this toothpaste.

(computing) folder (container of computer files)

briefcase (case used for carrying documents)

(politics) ministry; portfolio (responsibilities of a government department)


solitude

Learned borrowing from Latin sōlitūdō, corresponding to sōlus (“alone”) + -tūdō.


silva

From Old Galician-Portuguese silva, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *swel-, *sel- (“mountain, ridge, forest”). Compare the doublet selva and Galician silva.
The /i/ is puzzling. Philologist Leite de Vasconcelos felt that the word was not a Latinism and conjectured a term spīna *silvea with the same suffix as ligneus and pīneus, where the close post-tonic vowel would cause the stressed vowel to rise, as in marisma and sirgo.

bramble (any of various thorny shrubs, especially those in the family Rubus)

Rubus fruticosus
Rubus fruticosus#Translingual

(in particular) blackberry (Rubus fruticosus)


acardite

(organic chemistry) acardite (substance used to stabilise chemicals and as a plasticiser)


moral

a set of moral values, (collectively) principles, morality;

(informal) authority, capacity or right to impose on or influence another;

balls (boldness), attitude of authority;

right to have a say on a matter, to judge someone etc., moral high ground;


terra

From Old Galician-Portuguese terra, from Latin terra.

Cuidado, essa é a terra dos caçadores de cabeças.

Be careful, that is the land of the headhunters.

land; region; territory (area associated with something)

Deixa essa pedra na terra.

ground (the surface of the Earth outside buildings)

Compramos uma terra para criar gado.

land; property (partitioned and measurable area owned by someone)

Após meses de viagem, finalmente chegaram em terra.

After months of travel, they finally arrived on land.

(sailing) land; dry land; ground (places outside a body of water)

A camisa está suja de terra.

earth; soil (mixture of sand and organic material found on the ground)

Lá na minha terra tem muitas capivaras.

There are a lot of capybaras in my homeland.


seis

From Old Galician-Portuguese seis, seys, from Latin sex (“six”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs (“six”).


pirata

Borrowed from Latin pīrāta, from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”).

pirate (person who commits robbery at sea against other ships)

pirate (person who reproduces copyrighted works without permission)


pirata

Um DVD pirata.


limousine

Unadapted borrowing from French limousine.


vice

used as an abbreviation of any word containing the prefix vice-


caixa

From Old Galician-Portuguese cajxa~qajxa, probably borrowed from Catalan caixa, from Latin capsa. Compare Sicilian cascia, Spanish caja.


caixa

Aquele caixa trabalha bem.

cashier (one who works at a till handling payments)


Odessa

Odessa (a city, the administrative center of Odessa Oblast, Ukraine)


Chinatown

Chinatown (a Chinese district outside China)


longa

(music) long (a note formerly used in music, twice the length of a breve)


longa

pt-noun

longa (Portugal) f or (Brazil) m (plural longas)


lista

From Old Galician-Portuguese lista, from Italian lista, from Old High German līsta, from Proto-Germanic *līstōn.


porta

From Old Galician-Portuguese porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”).

(computing) port (connector of an electronic device)


ira

From Old Galician-Portuguese ira, from Latin īra, from Proto-Indo-European *eis.

anger, rage (a strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something)


breve

Probably a borrowing from Latin brevis (“short”) (compare Spanish breve, where *brieve would be expected if the term were inherited), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus.


breve

(music) a double whole note (US) or breve (UK)

(phonetics) a syllable or vowel that is quickly pronounced


Hannah

a female given name, equivalent to English Hannah, Alternative form of Hanna


Génova

Genoa (a city, the regional capital of Liguria, Italy)


nauta

Learned borrowing from Latin nauta, from Ancient Greek ναύτης (naútēs).


história

Kabuverdianu: stória

[iʃˈtɔ.ɾɪ.ɐ]

Learned borrowing from Latin historia (“history”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía, “learning through research, narration of what is learned”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to learn through research, to inquire”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the one who knows, the expert, the judge”). Doublet of estória.


hooligan

pt-noun

hooligan m or f by sense (plural hooligans)

Unadapted borrowing from English hooligan.


data

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”). Doublet of dada.

Qual é sua data de nascimento?

date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)

Uma data de coisas.

Quero comprar esta data.


astrologia

Borrowed from Latin astrologia (“astronomy, astrology”), from Ancient Greek ἀστρολογία (astrología, “astronomy, astrology”), from ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) + -λογία (-logía, “treating of”).


droga

From French drogue, from Middle French drogue, from Old French drogue, from drocgue, possibly from Middle Dutch droge (“dry”).

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

drug (substance used to treat an illness or relieve a symptom)

drug (psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive)

Essa droga não funciona!

(informal) crap (something of poor quality)


adambulacral

pt-adj

adambulacral m or f (plural adambulacrais)


mona

From Venetian mona (“pussy, cunt”).
Possibly borrowed from Spanish mona.

(Brazil, informal) vagina (woman's genitalia)

Hoje a 1 hora da tarde foi tambem conduzido áquelle posto o creoulo Manoel Oliveira, por estar cahido com forte «mona» na rua 15 de Novembro, na porta do estabelecimento funerário do Sr. Miguel Dellelis.

1906 March 3, A Situação, Jaguarão, page 2; quoted in Jeferson Francisco Selbach, Rosemary Fritsch Brum, “Jornal A Situação 1906 a 1920”, in Ruralização e viver em fronteira: Jaguarão/RS, Porto Alegre: Animal, 2017 May 13, page 99

the state of being upset, bothered or annoyed

(bullfighting) armor used by the bullfighter under his shorts


tora

(Brazil) log (cut and cleared trunk of a tree)


-cida

pt-noun

-cida m or f by sense (noun-forming suffix, plural -cidas)

Borrowed from Latin -cīda, from the base of caedō (“to cut, to strike, to kill”).

fungo (“fungus”) + -cida → fungicida (“fungicide”)


posse

Borrowed from Medieval Latin posse (“power, ability”).

Sei que há moças que vendem o corpo, única posse real, em troca de um bom jantar em vez de um sanduíche de mortadela.

1977, Clarice Lispector, A hora da estrela [The Hour of the Star]

No Palácio da Ajuda, tomarão posse todos os membros do Governo, os 17 ministros e os 41 secretários de Estado, numa cerimónia conjunta à imagem do que aconteceu a 30 de Outubro, com o XX Governo, liderado por Pedro Passos Coelho.

2015 November 26, São José Almeida, “Cavaco deverá sublinhar desafios ao dar posse a Costa”, in Público


shuriken

shuriken m or f (plural shurikens or shuriken)

shuriken (throwing blade with multiple points used by ninjas)


fome

From Old Galician-Portuguese fame, from Latin famēs (“hunger”) (possibly through a Vulgar Latin alternative accusative form Latin *fam(i)ne(m), or more likely a variant nominative form *famen), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare Galician fame, Spanish hambre (Old Spanish fambre), Catalan fam, French faim, Italian fame and Romanian foame (which likewise underwent an unusual phonetic development, possibly influenced by the unrelated Latin fomes (“tinder”)).

der

Tenho fome porque não como há três dias.

I’m hungry because I haven’t eaten in three days.

(uncountable) hunger (need or compelling desire for food)

Fome de poder.

Ocorreram várias fomes na Etiópia.

famine (extreme shortage of food in a region)


quota

Alternative form of cota, exclusively in the sense of the English word quota, but not for the other uses of cota meaning he quotes or armour coat


occidental

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


idiota

Borrowed from Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).


transversal

pt-adj

transversal m or f (plural transversais)

[tɾɐ̃ʒ.veχˈsaʊ̯]

[tɾɐ̃ʒ.vɨɾˈsaɫ]

[tɾɐ̃ʒ.vɨɾˈsaɫ]

[tɾɐ̃ʒ.βɨɾˈsaɫ]


transversal

[tɾɐ̃ʒ.veχˈsaʊ̯]

[tɾɐ̃ʒ.vɨɾˈsaɫ]

[tɾɐ̃ʒ.vɨɾˈsaɫ]

[tɾɐ̃ʒ.βɨɾˈsaɫ]


glace

frosting, icing (a sugary coating for cakes and other baked goods)


phase

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


performance

/pɨɾˈfɔɾ.mɐ̃.sɨ/

/pɛɾˈfɔɾ.mɐ̃.sɨ/

Unadapted borrowing from English performance.

ubor

(art) performance (artistic manifestation based on staging that can combine dance, music, audiovisual media)

(linguistics) performance (manifestation of a speaker's linguistic competence)


quite

From Old Galician-Portuguese quite, from Old French quitte (“free; liberated”), from Latin quiētus.


diocese

From Ancient Greek δῐοίκησῐς (dioíkēsis), through Latin dioecēsis.

(religion) diocese (administrative district in some ancient Roman provinces)

(religion) diocese (ecclesiastical territorial division subject to the jurisdiction of a bishop or of his legitimate substitute)


geek

geek (expert in a technical field, particularly to do with computers)


caverna

(nautical) rib (part of a ship’s framework)


ET

(ufology) Abbreviation of extraterrestre.


ave

Kabuverdianu: avi

From Old Galician-Portuguese ave (“bird”), from Latin avis (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis (“bird”).

Todas as aves têm asas.


fotografia

Borrowed from French photographie, from Ancient Greek φωτός (phōtós, “(genitive) of light”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to write”). By surface analysis, foto- + grafia.

der

photography (the art of taking photographs)

photograph (picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface)

(figurative) carbon copy (something that looks very similar to something else)


avalanche

/ɐ.vɐˈlɐ̃.ʃɨ/

/ɐ.vɐˈlɐ̃.ʃɨ/

/ɐ.bɐˈlɐ̃.t͡ʃɨ/

[ɐ.βɐˈlɐ̃.t͡ʃɨ]

Borrowed from French avalanche, from Savoyard Franco-Provençal avalançhe.

avalanche (large mass of snow sliding down a mountain side)

(figurative) (sudden, great, or irresistible influx of anything)


vagina

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of bainha and vagem.


tia

pt-noun

tia f (plural tias, masculine tio, masculine plural tios)

tias (plural)
tio (masculine)
tios (masculine plural)

→ Aukan: tiya

→ Saramaccan: tia

From Old Galician-Portuguese tia, from Late Latin thīa, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).

aunt (sister of someone's father or mother, or an uncle's wife)

(slang) aunt (colloquial term of address for an older woman)

(slang, by extension) colloquial term of address for any female person

tia da limpeza

(Brazil, slang) a female clerk who performs a regular activity


hora

→ Chichewa: ola

Kabuverdianu: óra

Macanese: ora

Papiamentu: ora

From Old Galician-Portuguese ora, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).
Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Catalan hora, Occitan and Italian ora, French heure and Romanian oară.

der

Há vinte e quatro horas num dia.

Ele estava aqui há uma hora.

A alguma hora, eu passo aí.

Que horas são?

É hora de dar tchau.


Colombo

Colombo (the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka)


triste

pt-adj

triste m or f (plural tristes, comparable, comparative mais triste, superlative o mais triste or tristíssimo, diminutive tristinho, augmentative tristão)

tristes (plural)
mais triste (comparative)
o mais triste (superlative)
tristíssimo (superlative)
tristinho (diminutive)
tristão (augmentative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese triste, presumably a borrowing from Latin trīstis.

Eles estavam tristes porque o inverno começou.

Era um filme bastante triste.

Estou muito triste com você.

A situação das escolas é triste.

The situation of the schools is lamentable.


medieval

[mɨ.ðjɛˈβaɫ]

From medievo (from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”)) + -al.


sauna

sauna (room or a house designed for heat sessions)


par

pt-adj

par m or f (plural pares, not comparable)

From Old Galician-Portuguese par, from Latin pār (“equal, like”), from Proto-Indo-European *per (“exchange”).


merda

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From Old Galician-Portuguese merda, from Latin merda, from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”).

(uncountable) shit; faeces (excretory product evacuated from the bowels)

(uncountable) shit (rubbish; worthless matter)

O teu trabalho é uma merda.

piece of shit (an object of poor quality)

(colloquial, usually uncountable) shit (nonsense; bullshit)

Fiquei aqui o dia todo e não fiz merda nenhuma.

I stayed here all day long and didn't do shit.

(colloquial, followed by alguma or nenhuma) shit (anything)

(figuratively, colloquial) shit (problem or difficult situation)

Nós nunca conseguimos sair da merda.

(figuratively, colloquial) a state of misery or penury


merda

(vulgar, derogatory) shit (a worthless or cowardly person; used particularly of men)


Alice

a female given name, equivalent to English Alice

(cryptography) Alice (an entity sending a message)


ala

Learned borrowing from Latin āla. Compare the inherited doublet á.

(sports) wing (position on either side of the field)

(chiefly politics) faction (ideologically distinct group within an organisation)

a row among a larger group of people or things

(Brazil) a subdivision of a carnival block consisting of similarly themed participants

(architecture) wing (part of a building that extends from the main structure)

(chess) each player’s half of the chessboard


ala

(sports) wing; winger (player in a wing position)

(aviation) wingman (support pilot in a squadron)


pastoral

pastoral (relating to the pastor of a church)