Portuguese words first recorded in the 19th century

It is formed from Portuguese veia + -o, a masculine made from the feminine noun “vein”. The feminine is from Latin vēna (“vein”), written Old Galician-Portuguese vẽa in the 13th century. The same…

It is formed from Portuguese en- + veneno (“poison”) + -ar, a parasynthetic verb made from the noun with a prefix and a verbal ending at once. Vieira (1871) and Figueiredo (1899) already analyse it…

It is formed from Portuguese novela + -ista. The noun novela is from Italian novella (“news; tale”), the noun use of the feminine of novello (“new”), from Latin novellus (“new, young”), a diminutive…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin *dīvergō, a form that Houaiss and Cunha set up beside the Latin dēvergō (“to incline, sink”). Wiktionary takes it from Latin dīvergō (“to bend to different…

Houaiss, Aurélio and Michaelis take it as formed from Portuguese frito + -ura. Porto Editora and Silva Bastos derive it from the verb fritar instead. Wiktionary traces it to Vulgar Latin *frīctūra…

It is borrowed from French suprématie, first recorded in Constâncio's dictionary of 1836. The French word, of 1651, is from English supremacy, first recorded in 1549, a derivative of supreme, which…

It is borrowed from French zéro, which was borrowed from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “empty; zero”). Silva Bastos and Michaelis derive it directly from the…

It is borrowed from French agir, from Latin agō (“to drive, do”), according to Machado, Nascentes and Wiktionary. Houaiss, Cunha and the Academia's DLP derive it directly from the Latin verb, Vieira…

Houaiss and the DLP take it as formed from Portuguese leite + -oso. Cunha, Nascentes, Aurélio and Michaelis derive it instead from Late Latin lactōsus (“milky”), and Wiktionary from a medieval Old…

It is a word of Bantu origin, but its exact source is disputed. For Nascentes, the Academia's DLP, Michaelis and the first edition of Aurélio it is borrowed from Kimbundu semba (“a bump of the…

It is borrowed from French sanitaire, adapted with the suffix -ário and first recorded in 1844. Houaiss analyses it as a Latin stem with the same suffix and compares the French word, which he dates…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin dispōnibilis (“that can be disposed of”), a word recorded in 1367, perhaps through French disponible, according to Houaiss. Wiktionary also has a learned borrowing…

It is borrowed from French bébé (“baby”). Machado and Cunha explain the French word as the nickname of a famous dwarf (1739–1764) at the court of Stanisław Leszczyński, and add that the English word…

It is formed from Portuguese burguês + -ia. Wiktionary takes it instead as a borrowing of French bourgeoisie, which can be analysed in the same way. DELPo compares Spanish burguesía. The base noun…

It is borrowed from New Latin Briza, the scientific name of the genus (1735), from Ancient Greek βρίζα (bríza, “rye”). Houaiss glosses the Greek word as a kind of wheat or rye; the LSJ has it for…