peso

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

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


cardinal

Learned borrowing from Latin cardinālis. Doublet of cardeal, which was inherited.


pica

Borrowed from English pica, ultimately from Latin pīca.


barra

From Vulgar Latin *barra, possibly from Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”), cognate with French barre and English bar. Doublet of bar.


forma

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese forma, from Latin fōrma (“form”), ultimately from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ).

inh+

(typography) type; sort (block used to print a character)


chave

Guinea-Bissau Creole: tcabi

Macanese: chávi

→ Assamese: চাবি (sabi)

→ Bengali: চাবি (cabi)

→ Gujarati: ચાવી (cāvī)

→ Hindi: चाभी (cābhī), चाबी (cābī)

→ Konkani: चावी (cāvī)

→ Marathi: चावी (cāvī)

→ Rohingya: sabí

→ Sylheti: ꠌꠣꠛꠤ (sabi)

→ Tamil: சாவி (cāvi)

→ Malayalam: ചാവി (cāvi), ചാബി (cābi)

→ Urdu: چابھی (cābhī), چابی (cābī)

From Old Galician-Portuguese chave (“key”), from Latin clāvis (“key”), from Proto-Italic *klāwis (“bolt, lock, bar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“nail, pin, hook - instruments, of old use for locking doors”) (possibly through an Ancient Greek intermediate).
Cognate with Galician chave, Spanish llave, Catalan and Occitan clau, French clé, Italian chiave and Romanian cheie. Doublet of clave, a borrowing.

der

Coloque o valor entre chaves.

(typography) curly bracket (name of the characters { and })


tipo

From Latin typus (“figure; type”), from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to poke”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-.

(typography) type (letter or character used for printing)


arroba

From Old Galician-Portuguese arroba and arrova, from Andalusian Arabic and Arabic اَلرُّبْع (ar-rubʕ, “fourth”) in reference to its making up one-fourth of a quintal. Cognate with Galician and Spanish arroba, Catalan arrova, and Maltese raba’.

(typography) at, the name of the symbol @


molde

[ˈmɔʊ̯.d͡ʒi]

[ˈmɔʊ̯.d͡ʒi]


ponto

From Old Galician-Portuguese ponto, from Latin punctum (“point”), from pungō (“to prick, to puncture, to punch”). Cognate with Spanish punto. Doublet of point.

(typography) point, a dot or tittle of a character


cauda

From Old Galician-Portuguese, borrowed from Latin cauda. Doublet of cola, which was inherited.

tail; tail end (posterior part or appendage of an object)

(typography, informal) tail; descender (stroke below the baseline of a letter)


aspa

(typography) quotation mark; inverted comma (the character ‘, ’ or '')


chapado

pt-adj

chapado (feminine chapada, masculine plural chapados, feminine plural chapadas)

chapada (feminine)
chapados (masculine plural)
chapadas (feminine plural)

preto chapado


pingo

colocar os pingos nos is

(Brazil, typography) a small dot that is part of a letter; a tittle


tijolo

Borrowed from Spanish tejuelo, from tejo.

(Brazil, typography) a compact composition with no lead paragraph and few stops


margem

[ˈmaɦ.ʒẽɪ̯̃]

[ˈmaɦ.ʒẽɪ̯̃]

[ˈmaɾ.ʒẽɪ̯̃]

[ˈmaʁ.ʒẽɪ̯̃]

[ˈmaɻ.ʒẽɪ̯̃]

/ˈmaɾ.ʒɐ̃j̃/

From Old Galician-Portuguese margen, from Latin marginem (“edge, brink, border, margin”), from Proto-Indo-European *merg-.

inh

(typography) margin (edge of paper which remains blank)


ligatura

(typography) ligature (character that combines multiple letters)


quadrado

From Old Galician-Portuguese quadrado, from Latin quadrātus (“squared”), perfect passive participle of quadrō (“to make square”), from quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

(typography) square (metallic piece used in typography to open and close paragraphs and establish white spaces)


espaço

Probably borrowed from Latin spatium. Compare Spanish espacio.

(typography) gap between written characters


linha

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese linha, from Latin līnea (“line, thread”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish liña, and Catalan llinya.

inh+

Uma linha bastaria:—«Meu querido Carlos, não te zangues, desculpa, foi brincadeira.»

1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica, Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:

One line would be enough:—“My dear Carl, don’t be angry, sorry, it was a joke.”

(typography, design) line, a row of text


subscrito

(typography) subscript (text written lower than the text around it)


gótico

pt-adj

gótico (feminine gótica, masculine plural góticos, feminine plural góticas, not comparable)

gótica (feminine)
góticos (masculine plural)
góticas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin gothicus (“gothic”).


aspas

(typography) quotation marks (the characters «» or “”)


serifa

(typography) serif (short line in a font)


estereótipo

From Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”) + tipo (“type”).


coluna

Borrowed from Latin columna, a collateral form of columen, from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-.

(typography) a text column (body of text meant to be read line by line)


colchete

Borrowed from French crochet (“hook”). Doublet of crochê (“crochet”).


cabeçalho

(printing, typography) header (upper portion of a page layout)


paginar

pt-verb

paginar (first-person singular present pagino, first-person singular preterite paginei, past participle paginado)

pagino (first-person present singular)
paginei (first-person preterite singular)
paginado (participle past)
paginar (impersonal infinitive)
paginar (first-person infinitive singular)
paginares (infinitive second-person singular)
paginar (infinitive singular third-person)
paginarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
paginardes (infinitive plural second-person)
paginarem (infinitive plural third-person)
paginando (gerund)
paginado (masculine participle past singular)
paginados (masculine participle past plural)
paginada (feminine participle past singular)
paginadas (feminine participle past plural)
pagino (first-person indicative present singular)
paginas (indicative present second-person singular)
pagina (indicative present singular third-person)
paginamos (first-person indicative plural present)
paginais (indicative plural present second-person)
paginam (indicative plural present third-person)
paginava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
paginavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
paginava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
paginávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
pagináveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
paginavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
paginei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
paginaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
paginou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
paginamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
paginámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
paginastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
paginaram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
paginara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
paginaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
paginara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
pagináramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
pagináreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
paginaram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
paginarei (first-person future indicative singular)
paginarás (future indicative second-person singular)
paginará (future indicative singular third-person)
paginaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
paginareis (future indicative plural second-person)
paginarão (future indicative plural third-person)
paginaria (conditional first-person singular)
paginarias (conditional second-person singular)
paginaria (conditional singular third-person)
paginaríamos (conditional first-person plural)
paginaríeis (conditional plural second-person)
paginariam (conditional plural third-person)
pagine (first-person present singular subjunctive)
pagines (present second-person singular subjunctive)
pagine (present singular subjunctive third-person)
paginemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
pagineis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
paginem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
paginasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
paginasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
paginasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
paginássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
paginásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
paginassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
paginar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
paginares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
paginar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
paginarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
paginardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
paginarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
pagina (imperative second-person singular)
pagine (imperative singular third-person)
paginemos (first-person imperative plural)
paginai (imperative plural second-person)
paginem (imperative plural third-person)
não pagines (imperative negative second-person singular)
não pagine (imperative negative singular third-person)
não paginemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não pagineis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não paginem (imperative negative plural third-person)

From página + -ar. Cognate with Galician paxinar and Spanish paginar.

(transitive, intransitive, typography) to paginate (graphically arrange the elements in a page)

(transitive, intransitive, typography) to paginate, foliate (assign a number to a page)


reticências

(typography) ellipsis (mark used in printing to indicate an omission)


versalete

(typography) small caps (upper-case letters in the same size as lower-case letters)


versalete

(typography) written in or relating to small caps


traço ene

(typography, rare) en dash (name of the typographical symbol –)


travessão

/tɾɐ.vɨˈsɐ̃w̃/

/tɾɐ.vɨˈsɐ̃w̃/

/tɾɐ.bɨˈsɐ̃w̃/

[tɾɐ.βɨˈsɐ̃w̃]

(typography) em dash (name of the symbol —)


chaveta

[t͡ʃɐˈβe.tɐ]

(typography, mathematics) brace, curly bracket


alográfico

pt-adj

alográfico (feminine alográfica, masculine plural alográficos, feminine plural alográficas)

alográfica (feminine)
alográficos (masculine plural)
alográficas (feminine plural)

(typography, of a character) allographic (being a variant of another character)


alógrafo

(typography) allograph (variant form of a letter)


caixa-alta

[ˌkaɪ̯.ʃɐˈaʊ̯.tɐ]

[ˌkaɪ̯.ʃɐˈaʊ̯.tɐ]

(typography) upper case (capital letters, collectively)


meia-risca

(typography) en dash (name of the symbol –)


barra vertical

pt-noun

barra vertical f (plural barras verticais)