Portuguese words first recorded in the 17th century

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin botanicus, from Ancient Greek βοτανικός (botanikós, “of herbs”). Cunha calls the Latin word Late Latin, and Houaiss, Machado and Aurélio take the Portuguese word…

It is borrowed from Latin problēma (“a question proposed for solution, a problem”), a learned word first recorded in 1683. Cunha dates it to the 17th century. Cunha takes it from Late Latin, where…

It is borrowed from Latin seriēs (“row, chain, sequence”), a learned word. Houaiss dates the first record to 1686; Cunha gives the 18th century. The same Latin word was borrowed as Spanish serie…

Houaiss and Priberam take it as borrowed from French alcali, first recorded in French in 1509, while Cunha and Aurélio derive it from the Latin of the chemists, Medieval Latin alcali. The Latin word…

It is borrowed from Latin assūmō (“to take up, take to oneself”), first recorded in 1690. Nascentes calls it a semi-learned word. The Latin verb is formed from ad- and sūmō (“to take”). Wiktionary…

It is borrowed from Latin subserviens (“serving, being subject to”), a learned word. The Latin word is the present participle of subserviō (“to be a slave to, obey; to lend oneself to”), a verb…

It is borrowed from Late Latin magīa (“magic, sorcery”), which is from Ancient Greek μαγεία (mageía, “the lore of the Magi; magic”). Nascentes calls it a learned word. The Greek noun is formed from…

It is borrowed from Late Latin rīsibilis (“able to laugh; that makes one laugh”), first recorded in Portuguese in 1692. Nascentes calls it a semi-learned word. Cunha lists it among the words of the…

Houaiss calls its origin doubtful and sets out three views. For Cunha, followed by Aurélio, Michaelis and Silva Bastos, it is borrowed from Medieval Latin veracitas (“truthfulness”). For Nascentes…

It is inherited from Latin fūlīgō (“soot”). Nascentes and Aurélio start from a popular Latin form with a double consonant, Vulgar Latin *fullīgō, which also lies behind the Spanish hollín. Other…

According to Houaiss, the DLP and Porto Editora it is borrowed from Medieval Latin causālitās. Cunha gives the Latin word too. Wiktionary, Aurélio, Michaelis and Silva Bastos analyse it as formed…

It is borrowed from Latin horror (“bristling of the hair; shuddering; dread”), a learned word first recorded at the end of the 17th century. The Latin noun is formed from horreō (“to bristle…

It is borrowed from Late Latin identitās (“sameness”), borrowed in the 17th century. Houaiss finds the Latin word first in Martianus Capella, about 425, and Aurélio calls it Late Latin, while Cunha…

It is borrowed from Latin maximus (“greatest”), the superlative of magnus (“great”). Nascentes counts it among the learned words. The adverb maximamente is recorded first, in 1572; the adjective…

It is formed from Portuguese regenerar + -tivo, as Aurélio, the DLP and Porto Editora analyse it. Houaiss describes it as regenerado put into the form of the stem Latin regenerat- with the suffix…

It is inherited from Latin gula (“throat, gullet”). Wiktionary gives a medieval Old Galician-Portuguese gola and calls the word a doublet of the learned gula. Nascentes reports that Adolfo Coelho…

The Portuguese dictionaries analyse it as from Portuguese mel (“honey”) + -aço. DELPo compares the French mélasse. Etymonline instead takes it from Late Latin mellāceum (“new wine, must”), the…

It is borrowed from Spanish sastre (“tailor”). The Spanish word was itself taken from Catalan sastre, earlier sartre, from Latin sartor (“patcher, mender”), a derivative of sarciō (“to patch…