Portuguese words first recorded in the 17th century

It is borrowed from Andalusian Arabic القبة (alqúbba), from Arabic قبة (qubba, “dome, vault”), with the agglutinated Arabic article ⟨al-⟩. Corriente, Pereira and Vicente record the word in…

It is borrowed from Spanish brillar, from Italian brillare (“to sparkle”), in the view of Houaiss, Cunha and Aurélio; Wiktionary and the dictionary of the Lisbon Academy take it straight from the…

Houaiss derives it from Portuguese moderno (“modern”) + -idade. Wiktionary, the DLP, Priberam, Porto Editora and Michaelis give the same analysis, and DELPo compares the French modernité. Aurélio…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *muccus (“snot”), a variant of Latin mūcus (“mucus, snot”). Nascentes and Houaiss explain the ⟨n⟩ as the nasality of the initial ⟨m⟩ carried on into the first…

It is formed from Portuguese notório + -dade, with the stem vowel changed from -o to -e on the Latin pattern of próprio and propriedade. Aurélio, Aulete, the DLP and Wikcionário derive it instead…

It is borrowed from Latin nūtriō (“to suckle, nourish”), a learned form. Wiktionary calls it semi-learned and compares the inherited Old Galician-Portuguese nodrir of the medieval language. Houaiss…

It is borrowed from French protocole, according to Houaiss, Cunha and Nascentes, and the French word is from Medieval Latin protocollum. The DLP and Vieira derive it directly from the Medieval Latin…

It is borrowed from Latin dīvortium (“separation; divorce”), a learned word. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. The Latin noun is formed from dīvertō (“to go off, separate”). The OLD notes that the…

It is formed from Portuguese leite + -eiro. Wiktionary and the Porto dictionary trace it instead to Latin lactārius (“of milk”), an adjective formed from lac (“milk”). Corresponding words are…

It is borrowed from Hindi रुपीया (rupīyā), a variant of रुपया (rupyā). The Hindi word is from Sanskrit रूप्य (rūpya, “silver; silver coin”). Corriente, Pereira and Vicente allow that it may have…

It is formed from Portuguese cultivar + -ção. DELPo compares the English cultivation. The verb is from Medieval Latin cultīvō (“to till, cultivate”), first recorded in Portuguese about 1539. The…

It is a deverbal noun from Portuguese relevar (“to make stand out”). Cunha places its first record in the 17th century, and Houaiss in 1609. The Romance noun of the same verb is Italian rilievo and…

In Houaiss and Cunha it is inherited from Vulgar Latin *ronea, which Houaiss, Nascentes and Aurélio explain as an alteration of Latin arānea (“spider; mange”). The Latin noun meant “mange” as well…

It is borrowed from Tupi îagûara, a name the Tupi gave to the big cats of the cat genus, above all the jaguar. Houaiss writes the Tupi word ⟨ya'gwara⟩ and notes that an older dictionary derived it…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *ploppus, an altered form of pōpulus (“poplar”), with the ⟨l⟩ moved into the first syllable. Houaiss and Cunha write the intermediate form *poplus. Corominas…

It is formed from Portuguese regular + -idade, the adjective with the suffix that makes nouns of quality, as Houaiss, Aurélio, the DLP and Porto Editora analyse it. Wiktionary instead treats it as a…

It is borrowed from Latin sinuōsus (“full of bends, winding”), first recorded in 1611. Nascentes calls it a learned word. The same Latin adjective is Spanish sinuoso, Italian sinuoso, Catalan sinuós…

It is inherited from Latin tabānus (“gadfly, horsefly”), written Old Galician-Portuguese tavão in a cantiga d'escarnho. The same Latin word is Galician tabán, Spanish tábano, Catalan tavà, French…

It is borrowed from Latin āctīvitās (“active meaning; activity”), first recorded in 1612 and spelt ⟨actividade⟩. Wiktionary takes it from Medieval Latin, and Nascentes calls it semi-learned. Machado…

It is borrowed from Latin quadrum (“a square”), first recorded in 1612; Cunha dates it to the 17th century. Houaiss, Nascentes and Wiktionary give the Latin word as its source, and none of them…

It is borrowed from Dhivehi އަތޮޅު (atoḷu), the word of the Maldive Islands for such a ring of islands. Houaiss takes it from the Maldivian word, probably with the influence of atoll, which goes…

It is inherited from Late Latin grassus (“fat”), a later form of Latin crassus (“thick, fat”). Cunha starts from a form *grassius, which would explain the ⟨x⟩. Wiktionary also sees the influence of…

In Houaiss, Nascentes and the DLP it is borrowed from Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (prōtagōnistḗs, “one who fights in the front rank; the actor of the leading part”). Wiktionary and Cunha take the…

It is borrowed from Latin dogmaticus (“relating to the doctrines of the philosophers”), which is from Ancient Greek δογματικός (dogmatikós, “doctrinal, founded on principles”). Houaiss presents it…

It is borrowed from Latin exigō (“to drive out; to exact, demand payment”), a learned word. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. Its cognate Spanish exigir is a learned word of the same kind, first…

It is borrowed from Latin vertīgō (“whirling; dizziness”), through the stem of its oblique cases. Nascentes and Aurélio give the Latin sense as “whirlpool”. The same Latin word gave Spanish vértigo…

It is the past participle of the verb, from Portuguese impor (“to impose”), used first as an adjective and then as a noun. Houaiss and the DLP trace it to Latin impositus, the past participle of…

Houaiss takes it as probably borrowed from French doctoral (“relating to a doctor”), a French word he dates to about 1380, from Latin doctoralis, with the first part adapted to doutor. Cunha and the…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin Vulgata, short for a Latin phrase meaning “the edition made public”. The name is the feminine of vulgātus (“spread abroad, common; published”), with ēditiō…

It is borrowed from French déserter according to Cunha, Aurélio, Priberam, the DLP and the Porto dictionary, and the French verb is from Late Latin dēsertō (“to abandon”), the frequentative of Latin…

1. The word for the perch is borrowed from Latin perca (“perch”), which Houaiss and Aurélio take through the scientific genus name ⟨Perca⟩. The Latin word is from Ancient Greek πέρκη (pérkē…

It is inherited from Latin rēgula (“straight stick, bar; ruler”), through Vulgar Latin *regla. The Latin noun is formed from regō (“to direct, rule”) with the diminutive suffix -ula. Houaiss and…

It is borrowed from Latin suggerō (“to put under; to supply; to prompt”). Nascentes calls it a semi-learned word. The Latin verb is a compound of sub- (“under”) and gerō (“to carry, bear”). De Vaan…

It is a shortened form, from Portuguese vosmecê, itself from vossemecê, a contraction of the form of address vossa mercê “your grace”. The phrase is Old Galician-Portuguese vossa mercee, literally…

It is borrowed from Latin collēga (“colleague, partner in office”). The Latin noun is formed from con- (“with”) and lēgō (“to appoint, delegate”) with the agent suffix -a. Lewis & Short explain it…

It is borrowed from French carabine, a short arquebus with a smooth bore, recorded in French from 1611 and as charabine at the end of the 16th century. The French word is from carabin (“light…

It is borrowed from Italian salsiccia (“sausage”), from Late Latin salsīcia, the neuter plural of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”) taken as a feminine noun, from Latin salsus (“salted”). Nascentes…

It is inherited from Latin cernō (“to sift; to separate, distinguish”), with the infinitive in -ir. Spanish has the verb as Spanish cerner, with a variant Spanish cernir that the DCECH explains as a…

It is borrowed from French flanc (“flank, side of the body”), first as a military term. Bluteau already explained it as a term of fortification taken from the French word for the side of an animal…

It is borrowed from Latin exāctus (“driven out; finished, perfect; exact”), first recorded in 1650. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. The Latin adjective is the past participle of exigō (“to drive…

Houaiss, Aurélio and Wiktionary derive it directly from Latin: it is borrowed from Late Latin validō (“to strengthen”), from validus (“strong”). Cunha and the DLP take it through French valider…

Houaiss derives it from Portuguese jardim + -eiro, with the final nasal of the noun developing into a dental ⟨n⟩; he notes that Cunha derives it instead from the verb jardinar. Wiktionary and…

It is formed from Portuguese substância + -ar, the noun with the suffix of first-conjugation verbs. The noun is from Latin substantia, which Houaiss glosses as “being, essence; support; nourishment…

It is borrowed from Latin sērius (“weighty, earnest, serious”), a learned word first recorded in 1652. Cunha dates it to the 17th century. Houaiss also records a form serioso between 1741 and 1783…

Houaiss and Priberam analyse it as from Portuguese des- + locar, the second part coming from Latin locō (“to place”), from locus (“place”). Wiktionary instead sees the whole verb as borrowed from…

It is borrowed from Spanish escolta (“escort”), from Italian scorta (“guidance, escort”). Houaiss calls the Spanish route probable and Cunha takes it through Spanish, which has the word from about…

It is borrowed from Latin refrīgerātiō (“a cooling, coolness”). Nascentes calls it semi-learned. The Latin noun is formed from refrīgerō (“to cool down”) with the suffix -tiō, and is found in Cicero…

It is borrowed from Latin ventilātiō (“exposure to the air; winnowing”), first recorded in 1661. Wiktionary assigns the Latin source to Late Latin and notes that the word can also be analysed in…

It is borrowed from Latin languidus (“faint, weak, sluggish”), a learned word. The Latin adjective is formed on langueō (“to be faint or sluggish”) with the suffix -idus. The same Latin word…

It is borrowed from Latin redundans (“overflowing; superabundant”), the present participle of redundo (“to flow back, overflow”), taken by the learned route. Cunha lists it under the verb redundar…

It is formed from Portuguese vibrar + -nte. Nascentes, Aurélio and Silva Bastos take it directly from Latin vibrāns, the present participle of vibrō (“to move to and fro; to flash”), and Bluteau…

It is borrowed from Latin uterīnus (“born of the same mother”), recorded from 1668. Nascentes calls it a learned word. Cunha instead takes it from French utérin, itself from the Latin adjective. The…

It is borrowed from Late Latin virulentus (“full of poison, venomous”), recorded from 1670. Nascentes calls it a learned word. The Latin adjective is formed from vīrus (“slime, venom, poison”) with…

It is borrowed from Latin prōmiscuus (“shared, common; mixed, indiscriminate”). Nascentes calls it a learned word, from the Latin sense “used in common”. The Latin adjective is formed from prō-…

It is formed from Portuguese sala + -ão, the augmentative of the word for a room, under the influence of French salon. The French word was borrowed from Italian salone (“large hall”), the…

1. The word for the hill is borrowed from Late Latin collīna (“hilly region”) according to Houaiss, the noun use of the feminine of collīnus (“of a hill”). Cunha takes it instead from French…

It is borrowed from Latin fūnctiō (“performance, execution”). Nascentes considers it semi-learned. The Latin noun is formed from fungor (“to perform, discharge”) with the suffix -tiō. In Late and…

It is borrowed from Late Latin uniformitas (“uniformity”), a word of post-classical Latin found in Macrobius, Arnobius and Tertullian. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. The Latin noun is derived from…

It is formed from Portuguese final + -izar. Houaiss dates it to about 1677; Cunha gives the 18th century. Vieira and Figueiredo already derived it from the adjective. The adjective is from Late…

Houaiss, Cunha and Priberam see it as borrowed from French ponctuation, recorded in French from 1522, a derivative of ponctuer (“to punctuate”). The DLP, Aurélio, Michaelis and Wiktionary instead…