Portuguese words first recorded in the 18th century

It is borrowed from Italian busto (“upper body; bust”), from Latin bustum (“place where the dead were burned and buried; tomb”). Houaiss derives it from the Latin word but traces the senses of…

It is borrowed from Old French bisel, the old form of French biseau, according to Cunha, Machado, Aurélio, the Academia's dictionary and the Porto Editora dictionary. Houaiss starts instead from the…

It is a back-formation from Portuguese esperar, the noun made from the verb without a suffix. The verb, written Old Galician-Portuguese asperar in some old texts, continues Latin spērō (“to hope…

It is borrowed from French mode (“fashion, custom”), a word of the 15th century in French. The French noun is from Latin modus (“measure; manner”), whose general sense “measure” led to “limit…

It is borrowed from French cravate (“necktie”). The French word was at first a military term, a soldier of the light cavalry, originally a Croat, since Croatian horsemen formed a mercenary regiment…

It is inherited from Latin grūmus (“heap of earth, hillock”), according to Wiktionary and the REW, which list the word among the Romance outcomes of the Latin noun. Houaiss, Cunha and Nascentes give…

It is borrowed from Latin salīnus (“of salt”), a learned borrowing. The Latin adjective is derived from sāl (“salt”). The same Latin word gave Spanish salino and Catalan salí (“salty”), and popular…

It is borrowed from Latin sēminālis (“of seed; used for sowing”). Nascentes calls it a learned word. The Latin adjective is formed from sēmen (“seed”) and -ālis. The noun goes back to Proto-Italic…

It is borrowed from Latin sollicitātiō (“vexation; incitement”). Houaiss dates it to 1708. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. It is the noun of solicitar, which is recorded from the 15th century. The…

It is a learned borrowing, borrowed from Latin minusculus (“rather small”), a diminutive of minor (“smaller, lesser”). The Latin adjective is built with the suffix -culus on the old s-stem seen in…

It is borrowed from Spanish anchova, the older Spanish form of anchoa. Houaiss and Corominas take the Spanish word from Catalan anxova (anxove 1383, amploya 1317), and that from Ligurian anciôa, the…

It is borrowed from Latin centrālis (“situated in the centre”), first recorded in Bluteau's dictionary of 1712. Wiktionary adds that by surface analysis it is centro with the suffix -al. The Latin…

It is formed from Portuguese desagradar (“to displease”) + -vel, the verb itself being formed from des- and agradar (“to please”). The Academia's dictionary, Porto Editora and Vieira analyse it…

It is borrowed from Latin stimulātiō (“goading; incitement”). Nascentes calls it semi-learned. The Aulete and Michaelis analyse it as from Portuguese estimular + -ção, and DELPo compares French…

Houaiss, Cunha and Aurélio call it of obscure origin. The old Caldas Aulete, Silva Bastos and Figueiredo considered it borrowed from Ligurian gassetta, and Wiktionary agrees. The 1975 Aurélio still…

It is formed from Portuguese lenho (“wood, log”) + -oso, according to Houaiss and Wiktionary, which compares Spanish leñoso. Most other dictionaries derive it directly from Latin lignōsus (“woody”)…

It is inherited from Latin līmitō (“to enclose within boundaries”), the popular counterpart of the learned limitar. The same verb is Spanish lindar. The Latin verb is formed from līmes (“boundary”)…

It is borrowed from Latin lixīvia (“lye”), a learned word. Latin had both the feminine (with cinis (“ash”) understood) and the neuter lixīvium for lye. They are the feminine and neuter of the…

It is borrowed from Spanish machete, a word first recorded in Spanish in a document of 1550. Corominas takes it for a derivative of macho (“large hammer for forging iron”), so that its first sense…

Houaiss takes it as borrowed from French réflexif (“relating to reflection”), a French word of 1692, itself borrowed from New Latin reflexivus (“relating to the reflection of light”). The Latin…

It is formed from Portuguese ressentir + -mento, ressentir being from Portuguese re- + sentir. sentir is from Latin sentiō (“to feel”). Bluteau, who first recorded the noun, considered it taken from…

It is borrowed from Latin supervīvō (“to outlive, survive”), first recorded in Bluteau's dictionary. Aulete and Michaelis analyse the Portuguese word as sobre- and viver, the outcome of the Latin…

It is borrowed from French sorbet. Houaiss thinks the French word probably reached Portuguese with the help of Italian sorbetto, and Michaelis takes the Portuguese word from the Italian one, while…

It is borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl. Wiktionary notes that the Nahuatl word meant the tomatillo, and that the tomato proper was xītomatl. Friederici quotes Molina's…

It is borrowed from Latin vīvāx (“long-lived; lively, ardent”). Nascentes calls it semi-learned and Aurélio popular. Houaiss notes the learned divergent form vivace, which as a musical term came…

It is borrowed from Latin voluptuōsus (“agreeable, delightful”). The same Latin adjective gave Spanish voluptuoso, recorded about 1440, French voluptueux, Italian voluttuoso and Romanian voluptuos…

It is borrowed from Spanish albino, a derivative of albo (“white”), according to Houaiss, Corominas and Caldas Aulete; the Spanish word is from Latin albus (“white”). Corominas writes that the…

It is formed from Portuguese porco + -aria, literally “piggishness”. porco itself is from Latin porcus (“pig”). Spanish and Catalan formed the same word, Spanish porquería and Catalan porqueria, and…

It is borrowed from Latin globulus (“little ball; pill”), learned. The Latin word is a diminutive of globus (“ball, round mass”) with -ulus. De Vaan thinks the Latin noun probably a loanword, like…

It is probably borrowed from English bandanna, which Dalgado, quoted by Machado, considered the immediate source; the English word comes from Hindi बंधन (bandhan, “the act of binding, a bond”). The…

It is borrowed from Latin ventilātor (“winnower; juggler”). Nascentes calls it semi-learned. Michaelis and DELPo analyse it instead as ventilar with the agent suffix, DELPo comparing French…

Houaiss and Aurélio take it as formed from Portuguese polpa (“pulp”) + -oso. Wiktionary derives it instead from Late Latin pulpōsus (“fleshy”), and allows the Portuguese formation as a surface…

It is formed from Portuguese alborque + -ar “to barter”, with the ⟨qu⟩ of the noun written ⟨c⟩ before ⟨a⟩. The noun alborque is a variant of alboroque, the drink or meal that seals a bargain…

It is inherited from Latin burricus (“small horse”), with the stress moved onto the ending, a shift helped by the Portuguese suffix -ico. The DCECH explains both this word and Spanish borrico from…

It is borrowed from French canapé. The French word, recorded from 1648 for a long seat with a back for several people, is an altered form of the older Old French conopé (“bed curtain”) (about 1180)…

Wiktionary takes it as inherited from Latin caespes (“sod, turf”), through its accusative. Houaiss gives the Latin word in both spellings, with and without the diphthong. The spelling cēspes is…

Houaiss analyses it as from Portuguese mercearia (“grocery shop”) + -eiro, the stem ⟨merce-⟩ taken from the name of the shop. Aurélio, Aulete and DELPo agree. Houaiss takes the shop's name in this…

It is borrowed from Latin pressio (“pressure”), from premō (“to press”), whose supine is pressum. Nascentes calls it semi-learned. The Latin word was rare: Lewis & Short find it only in Vitruvius…

It is borrowed from Latin terrōsus (“containing earth, loamy”). The Latin adjective is formed from terra (“earth”) with the suffix -ōsus, and is rare in Latin, used by Vitruvius of sand and hills…

1. The word for the calf is borrowed from Latin vitellus (“little calf”), a diminutive of vitulus (“calf”). Houaiss dates it to 1791 and Cunha to the 18th century. Houaiss has a single article for…