Portuguese words first recorded in the 14th century

It is inherited from Latin stuppa (“coarse flax, tow”), written Old Galician-Portuguese estopa and Old Galician-Portuguese stopa in the oldest texts. The same Latin word is Galician estopa, Spanish…

It is borrowed from Old French loge, which was recorded from 1135 as “shelter of branches and leaves”, then as “gallery, stand” and “kennel”. Wiktionary instead treats it as inherited from Old…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *requaerō, a Vulgar Latin form remade on quaerō (“to seek”) from classical Latin requīrō (“to seek again, look for, ask for”). The Latin verb is formed with the…

It is borrowed from Andalusian Arabic سكر (súkkar, “sugar”), with the Arabic article al- fused into the word as its initial a-, the /l/ assimilated to the /s/: Corriente writes the Andalusian form…

It is borrowed from French balle. The French word for a bale is Gallo-Romance and goes back to Frankish *balla, while that for a ball and bullet, recorded from 1534, is taken from northern Italian…

It is borrowed from Latin dēclārātiō (“a making known, disclosure”), a learned word. Nascentes calls it semi-learned, and Houaiss analyses it as a Portuguese formation, from Portuguese declarar +…

It is inherited from Late Latin cocīnō (“to cook”), a later form of Latin coquīnō (“to cook”); Wiktionary gives the medieval spelling as Old Galician-Portuguese cozinnar. Silva Bastos, Vieira…

It is borrowed from Latin reservō (“to keep back, save up, hold in reserve”). The Latin verb is formed from re- (“back”) and servō (“to keep, preserve”). Medieval Latin used it in law for keeping a…

It is borrowed from Latin satisfaciō (“to give satisfaction, to do enough”), first recorded in 1340. Nascentes calls it a semi-learned word, and Houaiss files it with the words formed on the…

Houaiss and the dictionaries of the Academia, Priberam and Porto Editora analyse it as from Portuguese a- + manhã + -ecer, that is “to become morning”. Cunha traces it instead to Vulgar Latin…

It is inherited from Latin annūntiō (“to announce, make known”), written Old Galician-Portuguese anuciar in 1344. Cunha dates the word to the 14th century. Nascentes describes it as a semi-learned…

It is borrowed from Latin aspectus (“the act of looking; sight; appearance”), a learned word. Nascentes says that it came through the old form Old Galician-Portuguese aspeito, which was then remade…

It is borrowed from Catalan avançar (“to go forward”), which comes from Vulgar Latin *abantiō, derived from Late Latin abante (“in front, forward”), a compound of Latin ab and ante. Houaiss names…

It is inherited from Latin buxus (“box tree”), written Old Galician-Portuguese buxo in the oldest texts. The botanical genus name, fixed in 1735, is the same Latin word. The same Latin word is…

It is inherited from Latin capistrum (“halter, muzzle”), written Old Galician-Portuguese cabresto and Old Galician-Portuguese cabestro in the oldest texts. The ⟨r⟩ of the Latin second syllable moved…

It is borrowed from Arabic خليفة (ḵalīfa, “successor, deputy”). Houaiss explains the Arabic word as “vicar, lieutenant of God on earth”, the title of the successors of Muhammad as heads of the…

It is borrowed from Late Latin capitānus (“chief, commander”), from Latin caput (“head”), first recorded as Old Galician-Portuguese capitam in 1344. The Late Latin word stands beside capitāneus…

It is borrowed from Latin centaurus (“centaur”), which is from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros). The Greek word was first the name of a savage people living between Pelion and Ossa in Thessaly…

It is borrowed from Latin cessō (“to hold back, desist, rest”), first recorded in 1344. Houaiss, Nascentes and Vieira simply derive it from the Latin verb. Wiktionary calls it a learned borrowing…

It is borrowed from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), a learned word. The Latin noun is formed from sciēns (“knowing”), the present participle of sciō (“to know”), with the abstract suffix -ia. De Vaan…

It is borrowed from Latin contentus (“contained; content, satisfied”), the past participle of contineō (“to hold together, contain”), a compound of teneō (“to hold”). Corominas considers the word…

It is inherited from Latin dēpōnō (“to lay down, put aside”), first recorded as Old Galician-Portuguese despoer in the 14th century and as Old Galician-Portuguese depoer in the 15th, while the…

It is formed from Portuguese duque + -esa, the feminine of the title. Houaiss adds the influence of French duchesse, formed in French from duc and -esse, especially in the senses of a kind of couch…

It is borrowed from French ambassadeur, according to Houaiss and Cunha. Houaiss dates the French word to 1366 and calls it a loan from Italian ambasciatore (13th century). Aurélio and the Academia's…

It is formed from Portuguese em- + barca + -ar, literally “to put into a boat”. Other dictionaries take the base to be barco instead. The noun comes from Late Latin barca, which Cunha considers a…

It is borrowed from Latin scāla (“ladder, flight of steps”), a singular that Houaiss calls Late Latin, beside the classical word usually used in the plural, scālae (“steps, staircase, ladder”)…

It is borrowed from Latin fāmōsus (“much talked of, famous”), formed from fāma (“report, fame”) with the suffix -ōsus. Nascentes calls it a learned word. The same Latin word is Galician famoso…

It is inherited from Latin vulpēcula (“little fox”), a diminutive of vulpēs (“fox”), written Old Galician-Portuguese golpella in the oldest texts. Lorenzo holds that the initial /ɡ/ is a normal…

As Houaiss, Cunha and the DLP explain it, the word is borrowed from Old Catalan illa (“island”), from Latin; it is recorded from the 14th century, as Old Galician-Portuguese ilha and Old…

It is inherited from Latin lentus (“pliant, flexible; sticky; slow”). Houaiss treats the word as a learned one, in which the Latin sense of time, “slow”, prevailed. Wiktionary distinguishes two…

It is inherited from Latin ulmus (“elm”), written Old Galician-Portuguese olmo in the oldest texts. The same Latin word is Galician olmo, Spanish olmo, Catalan om, French orme, Italian olmo and…

It is inherited from Latin planta (“sole of the foot; shoot, cutting for planting”), written Old Galician-Portuguese planta in the oldest texts. Nascentes calls it a learned word, and the REW puts…

It is inherited from Latin pōnēns (“setting, placing”), the present participle of pōnō (“to put, place”), written Old Galician-Portuguese poente in the oldest texts. Houaiss, the DLP and Priberam…

It is borrowed from Late Latin pompōsus (“stately, magnificent”), according to Cunha, the DLP and Wiktionary. Houaiss instead treats it as a Portuguese formation from pompa with the suffix -oso. The…

Its origin is disputed. Machado, as Houaiss reports, thought it most probably borrowed from Spanish puñal, although he also allowed a native formation. Wiktionary, Priberam, the DLP and Porto…

It is inherited from Latin recordor (“to call to mind, remember”), or its active form recordō, which the OLD records beside the deponent and which Houaiss and Porto Editora give as the source…

It is inherited from Latin sūcidus (“juicy, moist; greasy (of unwashed wool)”), also spelt succidus, and is written Old Galician-Portuguese çujo in the oldest texts. Nascentes and Aurélio trace it…

It is inherited from Latin sūdor (“sweat”), written Old Galician-Portuguese suor, Old Galician-Portuguese suur and Old Galician-Portuguese sudor in medieval texts. The long Latin ō gave a closed…

1. The word for coarse fibre and dregs is inherited from Latin burra (“coarse woollen cloth”). In Late Latin the noun named a shaggy garment, and Ausonius used the plural for trifles and nonsense…

It is inherited from Latin ūnctum (“ointment; rich food”), the noun use of ūnctus, the past participle of ungō (“to anoint”). Houaiss starts instead from the noun of the fourth declension with the…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin auctōrizō (“to confirm”), the origin that most authors give, as Houaiss puts it. Machado calls the Latin verb Late Latin. Houaiss dates the first record to 1360…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *mattea (“club”). Houaiss prefers the spelling *matea, and Machado and Wiktionary a form mattia, which Wiktionary records as Late Latin. It is generally taken as a…

It is inherited from Latin armātūra (“armament, equipment; troops in arms”), written Old Galician-Portuguese armadura in the oldest texts. The Latin noun is formed from armō (“to arm”) with the…

It is formed from Portuguese braço + -al, as Houaiss, Aurélio and Aulete explain it. Machado, the DLP and Porto Editora derive it instead from Latin brachiālis (“of the arm”), and Wiktionary gives…

It is a back-formation from Portuguese burrico, from Latin burricus (“small horse”), the view of Houaiss, Aurélio, Nascentes and Wiktionary, after the REW. Machado, too, deduces it from borrico…

It is probably borrowed from Old Catalan caixa or the related Old Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“round box for book rolls; chest”). Houaiss holds that the word came through trade, and explains…

It is inherited from Latin cingula (“girth”), from cingō (“to gird”); the oldest texts write it Old Galician-Portuguese cinlha, Old Galician-Portuguese çenlha and Old Galician-Portuguese çilla. In…

Houaiss calls the origin disputed. The usual view is that it is inherited from Vulgar Latin *cunea, a feminine form of cuneus (“wedge”), written Old Galician-Portuguese cuna in the oldest texts…

It is borrowed from Old Occitan esmalt (“enamel”) or Catalan esmalt, from Frankish *smalt. Cunha names only the Catalan word, of Germanic origin, and Houaiss notes that the Catalan form is first…

It is inherited from Latin pecten (“comb”), through the older form Old Galician-Portuguese pentem. Nascentes reconstructs the steps *peitne, *peinte and *peintem: /kt/ became /it/, the nasal moved…

It is borrowed from Old French torche, which Houaiss dates to the 12th century and glosses “a twist of straw; twisted inflammable material, a large wax candle, a torch”. The French word is from…

It is inherited from Late Latin dēfēnsa (“defended (land)”), short for a phrase with terra (“land”). The Latin word is the noun use of the feminine of dēfēnsus (“defended, protected”), the past…

It is borrowed from Old French estrangier, the source of French étranger, first as Old Galician-Portuguese strangeiro. The Old French word is derived from estrange (“strange, foreign”), from Latin…

It is inherited from Latin molō (“to grind in a mill”), written Old Galician-Portuguese moer in the oldest texts. The same Latin word is Galician moer, Spanish moler, Catalan moldre, Occitan molre…

It is inherited from Latin putō (“to clean; to prune”), written Old Galician-Portuguese podar in the oldest texts. Houaiss lists the many senses of the Latin verb, from “to clean, purify” and “to…

It is borrowed from Catalan vinagre, a compound of vin (“wine”) and agre (“sour”), from Latin vīnum (“wine”) and ācre (“sharp, sour”). Houaiss, following Cunha, and Wiktionary take it through…

1. The word for the mortar vessel is inherited from Latin mortārium (“bowl or trough for pounding, mortar”), Houaiss says, with the influence of Italian mortaro. Cunha and Aurélio take it as an…

It is borrowed from Latin substitūtiō (“substitution; appointment of an alternative heir”), first recorded in 1368 as Old Galician-Portuguese substituyçon. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. Cunha…

It is inherited from Latin convincō (“to overcome; to prove guilty”), recorded from 1369 as Old Galician-Portuguese conuencer. Nascentes calls it a semi-learned word. The Latin verb is formed from…

Houaiss, Cunha and Aurélio take it as borrowed from Old French breuvage (“drink”). Cunha derives the French word from a Latin *biberaculum, which Houaiss glosses “a liquid made for drinking”…