Portuguese words first recorded in the 16th century

It is borrowed from Latin concursus (“a running together, a gathering”), a learned word. Houaiss dates the word to 1570, with an earlier spelling in 1552. Cunha has 1570. The Latin noun is formed…

It is borrowed from Italian fregata, a name for a fast ship that the DELI records from 1353 in Boccaccio and that later meant a warship. Nascentes derives the Portuguese form from a dialectal…

It is borrowed from Latin incendium (“fire, conflagration”), first recorded in 1552. Houaiss lists the many senses of the Latin word: strong heat, a blaze, a torch for setting fires, and…

It is borrowed from Latin nūntius (“messenger; message”), the noun of nūntiō (“to announce”). Nascentes calls it semi-learned and a literary word. The DLP instead takes it from the Italian nunzio…

It is borrowed from Latin porticus (“colonnade, covered walk, porch”), a learned word. The Latin word is feminine; Nascentes explains the masculine gender of the Portuguese word from its ending. The…

It is borrowed from Latin regressus (“a going back, return”), a learned word, as Nascentes notes. Houaiss dates it to 1552 and Cunha to the 16th century. The Latin noun is formed from regredior (“to…

1. The word for the weft is inherited from Latin trāma (“weft, woof; web”). Houaiss dates it only from 1552, and Cunha to the 16th century. Bluteau (1712) calls it a Latin word. The same Latin word…

It is inherited from Latin mataxa (“rough thread, tow”), a word also spelt metaxa. The Latin word is from Ancient Greek μέταξα (métaxa, “raw silk”), itself of unknown origin. The same Latin word is…

It is borrowed from Latin monarchia (“absolute rule, monarchy”), from Ancient Greek μοναρχία (monarkhía, “rule by one person”). Nascentes and Aurélio note that it came by the learned route. The…

It is borrowed from Latin mūnītiō (“the building of fortifications; a defence work”). Nascentes calls it semi-learned; Wiktionary also notes the analysis munir + -ção. The same Latin word gave…

It is inherited from Latin pīnea (“pine cone”), short for nux pīnea (“pine nut”), from pīneus (“of pine”). The adjective is a derivative of pīnus (“pine”). The same Latin word is Galician piña…

It is borrowed from Occitan fonilh (“funnel”) (also enfonilh), from Latin fundibulum. Meyer-Lübke explains the ⟨n⟩ for Latin ⟨nd⟩ as a Gascon development, so that the word would have started from…

It comes from Late Latin campānia (“open country, plain”). Houaiss quotes Machado's view that the Latin word is the neuter plural of the adjective campāneus, used as a noun, or else an extension of…

It is borrowed from Late Latin fūnerālis (“of a funeral”), a learned word of the 16th century. Houaiss and the DLP call the source Latin, Silva Bastos and Figueiredo Low Latin, Wiktionary Late…

It is borrowed from French rouler (“to roll”). In Old French the verb was roeler or roueler, first recorded about 1160. The French verb is a derivative of ruele, which with its variant roele is an…

It is borrowed from Latin cliēns (“a dependant under a patron's protection”), a learned word. Aurélio and the Wikcionário bring it in through French client, which the French had borrowed from Latin…

It is borrowed from Late Latin ode (“lyric song”), also written ōda, which is from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). The Greek noun is the contracted form of ἀοιδή (aoidḗ), from ἀείδω (aeídō, “to…

The origin is obscure. Wiktionary, Figueiredo, the DLP and Aurélio make it borrowed from Malay bambu, and Wiktionary traces that to Kannada ಬಂಬು (bambu). Houaiss and Cunha, following Dalgado, prefer…

It is a word of West Africa: Cunha, the DLP and Michaelis take it from an unidentified language of the Guinea coast, and Machado says that the Portuguese learnt it in Guinea. Wiktionary names Wolof…

According to Houaiss, Machado and the Porto dictionary, it is inherited from Latin boārius (“of cattle”), also written bovārius, the adjective of bōs (“ox”). In Medieval Latin both forms were also…

It is inherited from Latin caprārius (“goatherd; of goats”), which Houaiss, Aulete, the DLP and Aurélio give as the source. Cunha also derives it from the Latin word. By surface analysis it is cabra…

It is probably inherited from Vulgar Latin *cicāra, a variant of cicāda (“cicada”). Houaiss calls the origin disputed: Cunha follows Corominas, who posits the variant for Spanish cigarra and holds…

Houaiss and Wiktionary take it as inherited from Latin coāgulum (“rennet, curdled milk”), as the popular form beside the learned coágulo. Wiktionary traces it through a syncopated Late Latin quāglum…

The origin is disputed. Machado and Cunha, as Houaiss reports them, take it as borrowed from Italian latta (“tinplate”), an Italian word recorded from 1333 for a thin sheet of iron coated with tin…

It is probably borrowed from Spanish lerdo (“slow, dull”), as Houaiss, Wiktionary, the DLP and the Porto dictionary take it. Cunha and Nascentes call it of obscure or doubtful origin. The Spanish…

It is borrowed from Italian modello (“model, pattern”), first recorded in Portuguese in a text of 1562–1575. Nascentes notes that it came in as a term of the arts. Older scholars proposed other…

It is inherited from Late Latin tardīvus (“slow; late”), formed from Latin tardus (“slow”) with the suffix -īvus. The Late Latin adjective is recorded only in the Tironian notes. The same word gave…

It is borrowed from Latin allūdō (“to play or sport with; to jest; to allude”), a learned word, spelt ⟨alludir⟩ until the 19th century. The Latin verb is formed from ad- and lūdō (“to play”)…

It is borrowed from Late Latin energīa (“force, efficacy”), a loan of Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia, “activity, operation; force in action”). Houaiss adds that the word was probably spread by…

It is formed from Portuguese gosto (“taste”) + -oso (“-ful”). Vieira (1871) already explained it so. The noun gosto goes back to Latin gustus (“taste”).

It is borrowed from Latin impotēns (“powerless, weak”), first recorded in 1563. Nascentes calls it a learned word. The Latin adjective is formed from in- (“not”) and potēns (“strong, powerful”). The…

It is inherited from Latin pulpa (“flesh; pulp of fruit”), through Old Galician-Portuguese polpa, as Wiktionary has it. Houaiss and Cunha give no medieval record: their first dates are of the 16th…

It is borrowed from Latin prōmontōrium (“headland, promontory”), a variant of prōmunturium. Nascentes calls it a learned word. The origin of the Latin word is not settled: Houaiss derives it from…

It is borrowed from Latin sevēritās (“sternness, strictness”), first recorded in 1563. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. Wiktionary notes that it can also be analysed within Portuguese as severo with…

It is formed from Portuguese verificar + -ção. verificar is from Medieval Latin verificō (“to establish as true”), formed from verus (“true”) and faciō (“to make”). Wiktionary calls averiguar a…

It is borrowed from Chinese 茶 (chá, “tea”), in its Mandarin form, according to Houaiss, Cunha and Aurélio. Wiktionary prefers the Cantonese 茶 (caa4), since the Portuguese tea trade was centred in…

It is borrowed from Latin spectrum (“appearance, image, apparition”), first recorded before 1566. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. Bluteau's dictionary (1712–1728) already derived it from the old…

It is borrowed from Latin subōrnō (“to equip, furnish; to prepare in secret, instigate”), a learned word. The Latin verb is formed from sub- (“under”) and ōrnō (“to equip, adorn”). Its first sense…

Houaiss and Aurélio derive it from Medieval Latin: it is borrowed from Medieval Latin viscositas. Du Cange glosses that word with viscus (“birdlime”). Cunha calls it an adaptation of French…

It is a back-formation from Portuguese destinar (“to destine, decide”). The verb is from Latin dēstinō (“to fix, make fast; to determine, resolve”), recorded from 1539 in a participle. The Latin…

Its origin is disputed. Corominas holds that it is borrowed from Spanish garra: the sense “claw” is native only to Castile, and spread into Portuguese from the south, where the older words for a paw…

It is borrowed from French paysage (“landscape”). Houaiss dates the French word to 1549 as a term of painting, to 1556 in the sense “a group of countries” and to 1573 as “the stretch of land the eye…

It is borrowed from Latin placidus (“gentle, calm, peaceful”), a learned word. The Latin adjective is formed from placeō (“to please”) with the suffix -idus, so that its first sense was “disposed to…

It is a back-formation from Portuguese restar (“to remain, be left”). The verb is from Latin restō (“to stay behind, remain”), from re- and stō (“to stand, stay”). Houaiss's first date for the noun…

It is formed from Portuguese a- + linha + -ar. Machado derives it simply from linha. DELPo compares Spanish aliñar. The noun is from Latin līnea (“linen thread, string, line”), a noun from the…

It is probably borrowed from Old Occitan belleza, though Italian bellezza is also possible; both come from Vulgar Latin *bellitia, an abstract noun formed on Latin bellus (“pretty, handsome”)…

Its origin is obscure: Houaiss calls it a word common to the Ibero-Romance languages, beside Spanish cazo, first recorded about 1400. Corominas adds Catalan cassa and Occitan cassa, both found in…

It is inherited from Latin mātūrō (“to ripen”), the popular form of the word whose learned doublet is maturar. The Latin verb is formed from mātūrus (“ripe”), which gave maduro. The same Latin verb…

It is borrowed from Italian medaglia. The Italian word meant a coin of little value from the 13th century and took the sense of a small cast or struck piece of metal with a sacred or secular figure…

It is inherited from Latin mustum (“unfermented grape juice, new wine”), the neuter of the adjective mustus (“fresh, young”) used as a noun. The same Latin word is Galician mosto, Spanish mosto…

It is formed from Portuguese onda + -ear. Wiktionary also gives a Vulgar Latin *undizō, formed on unda (“wave”), as the source, with the Portuguese formation as an alternative analysis. The Vulgar…

It is formed from Portuguese peido + -ar. The noun goes back to Old Galician-Portuguese peido, from Latin pēditum (“fart”). Nascentes's fuller dictionary of 1955 had derived the verb directly from…

It is formed from Portuguese piolho (“louse”) + -oso, as Houaiss, Aurélio, the DLP and Michaelis explain it. Porto Editora derives it instead from Latin peduculōsus, a variant of pēdīculōsus…

It is borrowed from Latin profūsus (“poured out in abundance; lavish”), the past participle of profundō (“to pour out, pour forth”). Nascentes calls it a learned word, and Bluteau already wrote that…

It is formed from Portuguese punir + -ivo, with the verb in the shape of the past participle of its source, Latin pūnītus. Aurélio and Porto Editora analyse it as the verb with the suffix -tivo, and…

It is borrowed from French salade, according to Houaiss, Cunha, Nascentes and the other dictionaries. The French word, recorded from 1414, was taken from the northern Italian salada and salata…

It is inherited from Late Latin salimuria (“brine”), formed from sāl (“salt”) and muria (“brine”), and written Old Galician-Portuguese salmoira in the older language. Houaiss calls the Latin word…

It is formed from Portuguese vigor + -oso. Older dictionaries derive it from Medieval Latin vigorosus instead: Vieira, Silva Bastos and Michaelis, as well as the DLE for Spanish vigoroso. Du Cange…

It is borrowed from Late Latin viscōsus (“sticky”). Cunha, who dates it only from 1844, takes it instead as an adaptation of French visqueux, itself from the Late Latin word. Wiktionary adds that it…

Houaiss takes it as borrowed from Late Latin vōtō (“to vow”), a frequentative of voveō (“to vow, promise; to dedicate”). Cunha, who marks the Latin verb as unrecorded, dates the Portuguese one to…