Portuguese words first recorded in the 16th century

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, a popular form of Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Cunha and Nascentes start from the variant *jiniperus, which Corominas notes is recorded in the Appendix…

It is borrowed from Latin callōsus (“hard-skinned, tough”), first recorded in 1570. The Latin adjective is formed from callum (“hardened skin”) with the suffix -ōsus. Wiktionary analyses the…

It is borrowed from Latin horribilis (“causing horror, dreadful”), a learned word. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. The first records spell the ending ⟨-ble⟩ and ⟨-bel⟩. The same Latin word gave…

It is probably inherited from Vulgar Latin *trifolum (“clover”), a form shaped by Ancient Greek τρίφυλλον (tríphullon, “clover”) in place of classical Latin trifolium. Cunha also starts from the…

It is borrowed from Latin dēsignō (“to mark out, trace, designate”), with the influence of disegnare, according to Houaiss. Nascentes and Aurélio derive it from the Italian verb alone, as does the…

It is borrowed from Latin āerius (“of the air”), from Ancient Greek ἀέριος (aérios, “of the air, high in the air”). The Latin adjective also had a rarer form āereus, which Silva Bastos, Michaelis…

It is borrowed from Latin austērus (“harsh, sour; severe”), a learned word. The Latin adjective is from Ancient Greek αὐστηρός (austērós), which was said of a harsh, dry or bitter taste, of water…

It is borrowed from Latin condūcō (“to bring together; to lead; to hire”), formed of con- and dūcō (“to lead”). Nascentes counts it a semi-learned word. Its ending is that of the other Portuguese…

It is borrowed from Latin stupendus (“to be wondered at”), the gerundive of stupeō (“to be stunned, to be amazed”). Houaiss and Cunha date it to 1572, and the old Caldas Aulete quotes it from…

It is borrowed from Latin praeēminēns (“standing out above, excelling”), a learned word. The Latin word is the present participle of praeēmineō (“to project above, surpass”), formed from prae-…

It is borrowed from Latin rotundus (“round, wheel-shaped”), a learned word. The Latin adjective is derived from rota (“wheel”). The OLD takes it to have been a verbal adjective in origin, like…

It is inherited from Latin silva (“wood, forest”), which Houaiss takes as having come by the popular route. Its learned doublet (see Related words) was the usual medieval form, recorded from the…

It is borrowed from Latin sōbrietās (“sobriety; temperance in drinking”), recorded from 1572. Nascentes counts it a semi-learned word. The Latin noun is formed from sōbrius (“sober”) with the suffix…

It is borrowed from Latin sordidus (“dirty, filthy; low, mean”), first recorded in 1572. Nascentes calls it a learned word. Houaiss makes it the learned doublet of the popular churdo, though under…

It is borrowed from Latin veneror (“to worship, revere”), a learned word. Cunha, Nascentes and Aurélio quote the active form venerare, which early Latin also used beside the deponent; Porto Editora…

It is borrowed from Latin vibrō (“to move to and fro, brandish”), a learned word. Cunha dates it to the 16th century and Houaiss to 1572. The same Latin verb was taken into Spanish vibrar, French…

It is borrowed from Latin victima (“sacrificial animal”), first recorded in 1572. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. The origin of the Latin word is not settled. De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic…

It is borrowed from Latin commūnicābilis (“that can be communicated”), formed from commūnicō (“to share, communicate”) with the suffix -bilis. Nascentes takes it from the Latin word by a…

It is borrowed from Spanish fanfarrón (“braggart”), first recorded in Portuguese in 1573. Figueiredo and Silva Bastos derived it from fanfarra, but that noun, from French, is recorded only from…

It is borrowed from Latin restō (“to stay behind, remain, be left over”). Houaiss's first record is a text of 1574–1590, and none of the medieval glossaries lists the verb. The REW lists it with…

It is inherited from Latin taxus (“yew”). Houaiss adds that botany took the same Latin word as the name of the yew genus in 1735. The same Latin word is Galician teixo, Asturian texu, Spanish tejo…

It is borrowed from Latin immātūrus (“unripe; untimely”). Nascentes calls it semi-learned. The Latin adjective is formed from in- (“not”) and mātūrus (“ripe, mature”). The inherited Portuguese word…

It is borrowed from Latin sacrōsānctus (“protected from violation by a religious sanction, inviolable”), first recorded before 1580. The same Latin adjective is Spanish sacrosanto, Italian…

It is borrowed from Late Latin appretiō (“to value, set a price on”), recorded in Portuguese from 1583. Houaiss calls the Latin verb imperial; the Academia's dictionary calls it Late Latin. Cunha's…

It is borrowed from Latin opportūnus (“convenient, suitable”), first recorded before 1587 in the old spelling with double p. Nascentes calls it a learned word. The Latin adjective is probably formed…

It is formed from Portuguese fértil + -izar. DELPo compares French fertiliser. The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“to bear, carry”).

It is inherited from Latin fūmō (“to give off smoke or steam”). Aurélio allows that it may have come through French fumer. The same Latin verb is Galician fumar, Spanish fumar beside the inherited…

It is borrowed from Latin labium (“lip”), a learned word; the Latin noun was also used, mostly, in the plural. Houaiss dates it to 1589, in Arrais. Aurélio and the Porto dictionary give beiço as its…

It is borrowed from Spanish papaya, recorded in Spanish from 1535, in Fernández de Oviedo. The Spanish word comes from a native language of the coast of the Caribbean Sea: Cunha calls it Cariban…

It is borrowed from Spanish peña (“rock, crag”), recorded in Spanish from 945. It displaced the inherited Old Galician-Portuguese pena, which survives as Galician pena. The Spanish word is from…

Houaiss, Aurélio, Michaelis and the DLP explain it as a back-formation from Portuguese picar (“to prick”), the noun of the pointed thing that pricks; Nascentes derives the sense “point, pointed…

It is borrowed from Latin redundantia (“overflowing, excess”), a learned word first recorded in 1589 in Arrais. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. Cunha records it in the 16th century beside the verb…

It is formed from Portuguese re- + fino + -ar, according to Houaiss, Aurélio and the DLP. Wiktionary instead derives it from Latin re- and fīnītus. The adjective fino goes back to finis (“end”)…

It is formed from Portuguese sobre- + carregar. Silva Bastos already analysed it so in 1912. carregar, recorded since 1286, is from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”).

It is borrowed from Latin subversio (“overthrow, ruin, destruction”), a noun of Late Latin, recorded in Arnobius and the Vulgate. Nascentes calls it a semi-learned word. The Latin noun is formed…

It is borrowed from Latin vehemēns (“violent, impetuous”), first recorded in 1589. Nascentes calls it a learned word. The same Latin adjective is Spanish vehemente, Galician vehemente, Catalan…

It is borrowed from Spanish frente, from older Old Spanish fruente, recorded in 1124, from Latin frōns (“forehead, brow; front”). Silva Bastos and Figueiredo derived it from the Old Spanish form. In…

It is inherited from Late Latin torta (“round loaf”) according to Nascentes and Aurélio. Houaiss gives the same Latin word, glossed “pastry, pie”. For Cunha, instead, it is borrowed from Italian…

It is inherited from Latin ūber (“teat, udder”), through the oblique stem, whose unstressed vowel was lost. Wiktionary takes it through Old Galician-Portuguese ubre. Nascentes calls it a syncopated…

Houaiss, Cunha and the DLP take it as borrowed from French carton (“thick paper, pasteboard”), itself from Italian cartone. Aurélio derives it directly from the Italian word. Wiktionary, Vieira…

It is from Portuguese cria (“offspring; slave raised in the household”), itself a back-formation from criar (“to raise, breed”), from Latin creō (“to create, beget”), with an ending whose origin is…

It is borrowed from Italian spione in the view of Houaiss, Aurélio, the Porto Editora dictionary and the DLP. Houaiss and Aurélio think the word may have come through French spion, and Porto takes…

It is formed from Portuguese familiar + -izar. Vieira and Figueiredo in the 19th century already derive it from the adjective. The adjective familiar, recorded from the 13th century, is from Latin…

It is inherited from Latin iungō (“to yoke, join”). Nascentes considers it semi-learned. Houaiss and Cunha first record it in the 16th century, while Wiktionary dates it to about 1350. The same…

It is borrowed from Latin sociālis (“of allies; made for society, sociable; conjugal”), taken into Portuguese in the 16th century. Nascentes calls it a learned word, and Wiktionary notes that it can…

Houaiss, Aurélio, the DLP and Wiktionary take it as formed from Portuguese validar + -ção. Cunha instead dates it to the 17th century and calls it an adaptation of French validation, as he takes the…

It is most probably borrowed from Spanish painel, a variant of panel, as Houaiss, Cunha, Nascentes and Aurélio hold. Houaiss traces the Spanish word to the dialectal French paniel, panel (recorded…