Portuguese
English
editAlternative forms
edit- Portugueese, Portugueze (both obsolete)
- (misspelling) Portugese
Etymology
editFrom Portuguese português.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌpɔː.t͡ʃəˈɡiːz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɹ.t͡ʃə.ɡiz/
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iːz
Adjective
editPortuguese (comparative more Portuguese, superlative most Portuguese)
- Of or pertaining to the region of Portugal.
- 1973, Roger Parkinson, The Peninsular War, page 104:
- The British army had already moved over the border and the commander had established his HQ high in the central Portuguese mountains at Viseu.
- Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.
- 1887, George Brown Goode, The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, section IV, page 33:
- In San Diego County there is but one Portuguese fisherman, as is also the case in Los Angeles, the county immediately adjoining.
- Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language.
- 1981, Milton Mariano Azevedo, A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English, page 31:
- The latter feature indicates that a Portuguese consonant cannot constitute the nucleus of a syllable.
Synonyms
edit- Portingal (obsolete)
Derived terms
editTranslations
editof or relating to the region of Portugal
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of or relating to the people of Portugal
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of or relating to the Portuguese language
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Noun
editPortuguese (plural Portuguese or (archaic) Portugueses)
- (chiefly in the plural) A person native to, or living in, Portugal.
- 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
- […] but so close lay the boats that even single hooks snarled, and Harvey found himself in hot argument with a gentle, hairy Newfoundlander on one side and a howling Portuguese on the other.
- 1920, Paulus Edward Pieris, Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658, page 184:
- With a view to securing its more efficient working, a Portuguese was placed in charge of the entire department as Vidane.
- 2000, René Chartrand, Bill Younghusband, The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars, volume 1, page 23:
- Beresford required all materials for coatees, waistcoats and pantaloons to be sent out unmade, as the Portuguese were perfectly capable of making the suits up properly after delivery.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Portuguese.
Usage notes
editAs with other terms for people formed with -ese, the countable singular noun in reference to a person (as in "I am a Portuguese", "writing about Portuguese cuisine as a Portuguese") is uncommon and often taken as incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Portuguese") or with a word like person, man, or woman ("writing about Portuguese cuisine as a Portuguese person"). See also -ish, which is similarly only used primarily as an adjective or as a plural noun.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editperson native to Portugal
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Proper noun
editPortuguese
- A Romance language originating in Portugal, and now the official language of Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guiné Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Cape Verde, East Timor, and Brazil.
- 2000, João Costa, Portuguese Syntax: new comparative studies, page 65:
- Portuguese, however, is slightly different from Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian in that there is no strict adjacency requirement between wh-words and the verbal cluster in indirect questions.
- 2001, Richard Louis Edmonds, William John Kyle, “Land Use in Macau: Changes between 1972 and 1994”, in Arthur H. Chen, editor, Culture of Metropolis in Macau: An International Symposium on Cultural Heritage: Strategies for the Twenty-first Century[1], Cultural Affairs Bureau [文化局], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 255, column 2:
- Overall it is Taipa (which means mudflats in Portuguese and its Cantonese name Tam-zai also means mud flats) that has changed the most through reclamation followed by the east coast of the Macau Peninsula.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editthe language
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See also
edit- Wiktionary’s coverage of Portuguese terms
- Appendix:Portuguese Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Portuguese
Further reading
edit- Portuguese - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
- ISO 639-1 code pt, ISO 639-3 code por (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Portuguese, por
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- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English 3-syllable words
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- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with quotations
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English indeclinable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
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