Portuguese words first recorded in the 16th century

It is borrowed from Latin absurdus (“out of tune; senseless”), a learned word. Houaiss dates it to 1589. Cunha and Machado put the first record in the 16th century. The same Latin word is Galician…

It is borrowed from Latin accessus (“approach, arrival, entry; onset of an illness”), a learned word. Houaiss dates it to 1589 in the sense “possibility of reaching”, and Cunha to the 16th century…

It is borrowed from Latin adōrābilis (“worthy of worship”), a learned word. By surface analysis it is adorar with the suffix -ável. Cunha dates it to the 16th century, Houaiss to 1619. The Latin…

It is borrowed from Latin agitō (“to set in motion, drive; to stir, disturb”). Machado notes that the -t- kept between vowels shows a learned word, as in the other Portuguese words of this root and…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin actuālitās, a word that Cunha attributes to Duns Scotus, derived from actuālis (“active, practical”). Houaiss thinks the sense “present time” probably came under…

It is borrowed from Latin austēritās, meaning both “sourness” and “severity”. Nascentes calls it a semi-learned word. The Latin noun is formed from austērus (“sour; severe”) with the suffix -tās…

It is usually explained as borrowed from Spanish bobo (“fool, simpleton”), from Latin balbus (“stammering”). Gonçalves Viana argued for the Spanish origin in his Apostilas: a native outcome of the…

It is borrowed from French brise according to Houaiss, Cunha, Machado, Aurélio and Wiktionary. Houaiss adds that the Portuguese word was probably influenced by Spanish brisa and Catalan brisa, while…

It is borrowed from Latin brūma (“winter solstice, winter”). Houaiss and Cunha date it to the 16th century, and Bluteau (1712–1728) still called it a Latin word; Wiktionary instead treats it as…

It is borrowed from Latin cadāver (“dead body”), recorded from the 16th century. It is the Latin nominative, not the accusative from which most Portuguese nouns come. The Latin word was also…

It is probably inherited from Late Latin calamellus (“small reed”), a diminutive of Latin calamus (“reed”). The Latin noun was itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed”). The first…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flat, flattened”), a popular adaptation, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”). Cunha dates it to the 16th century, and Houaiss to 1650. The…

It is borrowed from Latin cicātrīx (“scar”), a learned word. Cunha dates it to the 16th century, Houaiss to 1670. The same Latin word was borrowed as Spanish cicatriz, Galician cicatriz, Catalan…

It is borrowed from Latin complētus (“complete, rounded off”), the past participle of compleō (“to fill up”), first recorded in the 16th century. Nascentes calls it a learned word and glosses the…

It is inherited from Latin consocer (“co-father-in-law”), written Old Galician-Portuguese consogro in the oldest texts. The Latin noun is formed from con- and socer (“father-in-law”), and denoted…

It is inherited from Latin crusta (“crust, hard coating, shell”). Beside it Portuguese has a learned doublet with the Latin spelling, which Houaiss dates to 1574–1590 and calls a learned divergent…

It is inherited from Late Latin digitāle (“finger-stall, thimble”), the neuter of Latin digitālis (“of the finger”), from digitus (“finger”) and the suffix -ālis. Du Cange's glossary records the…

It is borrowed from Late Latin dēliciōsus (“delightful”), a learned word. Lewis & Short mark the Latin adjective as late, from Augustine and later writers. It is formed from dēliciae (“delight…

It is borrowed from Latin squāmōsus (“covered with scales”), according to Houaiss, Cunha, Nascentes, Aurélio and the DLP. The Latin adjective, already in Plautus, is formed on squāma (“scale”) with…

Houaiss explains it as a derivative from Portuguese esvaecer, with the ending replaced by -ir, and Nascentes also calls it a back-formation from that verb. Wiktionary, the DLP, Porto Editora and…

It is borrowed from Latin ēventus (“occurrence, outcome, result”), a learned word. The Latin noun is formed from ēveniō (“to happen, come out”). The same Latin word was borrowed as Spanish evento…

It is borrowed from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, productive”), a learned word. The Latin adjective is formed from ferō (“to carry, bear”) with the suffix -ilis; the -t- probably comes from other…

It is borrowed from Spanish huracán, a word of the Taíno of the Antilles, from Taíno hurakán. Wiktionary writes the Taíno form as *hurakā. The Spanish word is first recorded as furacan in Peter…

It is borrowed from Italian garbo (“courteous manner”), recorded in Italian in 1540–1541. Houaiss calls the Italian word of disputed origin. Nocentini and Corominas derive it from Arabic قالب…

It is borrowed from Late Latin impostor (“deceiver”), a learned word. The Latin noun is a later form of impositor, an agent noun of Latin impōnō (“to place upon; to impose on, deceive”). Several…

It is formed from Portuguese lavar + -dura, according to Aurélio, the DLP and Wiktionary. Houaiss analyses it as the stem of the participle lavado with the suffix -ura. Cunha dates it to the 16th…

It is a back-formation from Portuguese loar (“to praise”), the old verb that is a popular form of louvar. The verb, written Old Galician-Portuguese loar in the cantigas, comes from Latin laudō (“to…

It is borrowed from Latin opācus (“shaded, shady, dark”). Nascentes calls it a learned word, which from “shady” came to mean “not transparent”. The Latin word lived on in popular words for the shady…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *ōrula (“little edge”), a diminutive of ōra (“edge, border”). Houaiss gives the Latin diminutive as probable. Nascentes in his fuller dictionary of 1955 instead…

Houaiss and Cunha take it as inherited from Vulgar Latin *orulō, a verb made on *orulus, a diminutive of Latin ōra (“edge, border”). Houaiss calls this derivation probable. The REW sets up the same…

It is borrowed from Latin potentātus (“power, rule, dominion”). The Latin noun is formed from potēns (“powerful”) with the suffix -ātus. Nascentes calls the Portuguese word semi-learned. In…

It is borrowed from Latin praecīsus (“cut off at the end; shortened, concise”), a learned word first recorded in the 16th century. The Latin word is the past participle of praecīdō (“to cut off in…

Houaiss, Cunha, Nascentes, Aurélio and Priberam take it from French: it is borrowed from French prélude. Wiktionary instead treats it as a learned borrowing from Latin under the influence of the…

For Houaiss it is borrowed from Medieval Latin praetensio (“claim”), a form used beside praetentio and built on a variant supine of praetendō (“to stretch out in front”). Cunha instead derives it…

It is formed from Portuguese respeitar + -vel, from the verb meaning “to respect”. Wiktionary allows that it may instead be a semi-learned borrowing of Medieval Latin respectābilis, with the Latin…

It is borrowed from Latin resonantia (“echo, reverberation”). Cunha dates it to the 16th century, Houaiss to 1624. Nascentes calls it semi-learned, and Wiktionary notes that it can also be analysed…

It is borrowed from Latin sēdūcō (“to lead aside, lead astray”). Nascentes calls it a semi-learned word. The Latin verb is a compound of sē- (“apart, aside”) and dūcō (“to lead”), so that it first…

It is borrowed from Latin sōlitūdō (“being alone; a lonely place”), a learned word recorded from the 16th century. Houaiss, Cunha and Wiktionary take it straight from Latin, and none of the sources…

It is borrowed from Latin succīnctus (“girded up; short”), the past participle of succingō (“to gird up, tuck up”). Houaiss and Nascentes call it a semi-learned word, and they and Aurélio quote the…

It is a form of Old Galician-Portuguese chantagem with its consonants swapped, and that word is inherited from Latin plantāgō (“plantain”). Cunha calls the metathesis probable. The older form…

The origin is disputed. Cunha takes it as probably an expressive formation, and Corominas, whom Houaiss quotes, calls it an expressive word created in the language itself, of a kind found in many…

It is borrowed from Latin trādūcō (“to lead across, transfer; to translate”). Nascentes calls it semi-learned. Houaiss records an odd 14th-century form Old Galician-Portuguese atrasaduzer, and the…

It is borrowed from French traîner (“to pull, drag”). Cunha, Nascentes and Aurélio give the older form Old French traïner. The French verb comes from Vulgar Latin *tragīnō, a derivative of *tragō…

It is borrowed from Latin vigilāns (“watchful, alert”), a learned word. Cunha calls it the learned doublet of the popular vigiante. The Latin adjective is the present participle of vigilō (“to stay…

It is borrowed from Latin importō (“to bring in, carry in; to cause”), first recorded in 1501. The Latin verb is made of in- (“in, into”) and portō (“to carry”). Houaiss notes that in Latin it…

It is borrowed from Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai, “woe!”) in the view of Wiktionary, Nascentes, Aurélio, the DLP and Porto Editora. Nascentes's fuller dictionary cites Meyer-Lübke's REW and Said Ali, who rejects…

1. The word for the musical note is borrowed from Italian la, recorded in Italian before 1527. Its name is the first syllable of labiī (“of the lip”), the first word of the sixth line of a medieval…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *crītō (“to cry out”), a reduced form of Latin quirītō (“to cry out for help, raise a public outcry”). The classical verb was explained already in antiquity as “to…

It is inherited from Latin gypsum (“gypsum, plaster”), which is from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos, “gypsum, chalk, cement”). Nascentes notes that Lokotsch allowed for Arabic influence and considered…

It is borrowed from Tamil கட்டில் (kaṭṭil, “bed, cot”), a word that Tamil shares with Malayalam. Dalgado, followed by Houaiss, Nascentes and Aurélio, takes it from the Malayalam form, with the sense…

It is borrowed from Latin intelligibilis (“that can be understood”), recorded from 1510. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. The Latin adjective, also written intellegibilis, is formed on intellegō…

It is borrowed from Malayalam ചക്കര (cakkara, “jaggery”), learnt by the Portuguese in India. Wiktionary allows Tamil சக்கரை (cakkarai) as an alternative source. Houaiss and Dalgado connect the…

It is borrowed from Italian squadrone, an Italian word recorded before 1470 for a cavalry unit under a captain. The Italian noun is squadra (“squad”) with the augmentative suffix -one, and that noun…

It is borrowed from French émir, from Arabic أمير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”), according to Houaiss, Cunha and Nascentes. Corriente, Pereira and Vicente also treat the Portuguese, Spanish and…

It is borrowed from Malay lancharan (“swift, light”), first recorded as lanchara. Dalgado reports that Yule took the source to be lanchar (“quick, swift”) followed by a word for “boat”, and that…

Its origin is disputed. Houaiss, Wiktionary and the DLP connect it with borrowed from Spanish mangle, a word of tropical America, which Houaiss calls Carib, from Taíno. Corominas considers the…

It is borrowed from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season, time of year fixed for something”), the word for the season of fairs, of the pilgrimage to Mecca, of the harvest and of sailing. Corriente traces…

It is inherited from Latin signa (“signs, marks”), the neuter plural of the Latin noun for “mark, sign”, taken as a feminine singular. Houaiss calls it the popular outcome of the Latin word, beside…

It is borrowed from Malay menteri, which Dalgado and Houaiss write mantari, from Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “counsellor, minister”), probably with /t/ changed to /d/ under the influence of mandar…

It is borrowed from Malay amuk (“a furious attack; a man possessed by fury”), which Houaiss, Cunha, Machado and Nascentes write ⟨āmoq⟩ after Dalgado. The Portuguese form was the word's way into…