Portuguese
English
Alternative forms
- Portugueese, Portugueze (both obsolete)
- (misspelling) Portugese
Etymology
From PortugueseCategory:English terms derived from Portuguese#PORTUGUESE português. By surface analysis, Portugal + -eseCategory:English terms suffixed with -ese#PORTUGUESE.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpɔː.t͡ʃəˈɡiːz/Category:English 3-syllable words#PORTUGUESECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PORTUGUESE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PORTUGUESEAudio (Hampshire): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌpoɹ.t͡ʃəˈɡiz/Category:English 3-syllable words#PORTUGUESECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PORTUGUESE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PORTUGUESEAudio (US): (file) - (less common) IPA(key): /ˈpoɹ.t͡ʃəˌɡiz/Category:English 3-syllable words#PORTUGUESECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PORTUGUESE
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˌpoː.t͡ʃəˈɡiːz/Category:English 3-syllable words#PORTUGUESECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PORTUGUESE
- Rhymes: -iːzCategory:Rhymes:English/iːz#PORTUGUESECategory:Rhymes:English/iːz/3 syllables#PORTUGUESE
Adjective
Portuguese (comparative more Portuguese, superlative most Portuguese)Category:English lemmas#PORTUGUESECategory:English adjectives#PORTUGUESECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PORTUGUESECategory:Pages with entries#PORTUGUESECategory:Pages with 1 entry#PORTUGUESE
- Of or pertaining to Portugal.
- Portuguese bordersCategory:English terms with collocations#PORTUGUESE
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#PORTUGUESE
- Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.
- Hypernym: European
- Portuguese cuisinesCategory:English terms with collocations#PORTUGUESE
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#PORTUGUESE
- Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language.
- Hypernym: Romance
- Portuguese verbsCategory:English terms with collocations#PORTUGUESE
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#PORTUGUESE
Synonyms
- Portingal (obsolete), Lusitanian
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
Portuguese (plural Portuguese or (archaic) Portugueses)Category:English lemmas#PORTUGUESECategory:English nouns#PORTUGUESECategory:English countable nouns#PORTUGUESECategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#PORTUGUESECategory:English indeclinable nouns#PORTUGUESECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PORTUGUESECategory:Pages with entries#PORTUGUESECategory:Pages with 1 entry#PORTUGUESE
- (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.Category:English terms with quotations#PORTUGUESE
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#PORTUGUESE
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#PORTUGUESE
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Portuguese.
Usage notes
- As 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 now uncommon and often taken as grammatically incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Portuguese") or before a noun like person, man, or woman ("writing about Portuguese cuisine as a Portuguese person"). See also -ish, which is similarly only primarily used as an adjective or as a plural noun.
Synonyms
Translations
Proper noun
PortugueseCategory:English lemmas#PORTUGUESECategory:English proper nouns#PORTUGUESECategory:English uncountable nouns#PORTUGUESECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PORTUGUESECategory:Pages with entries#PORTUGUESECategory:Pages with 1 entry#PORTUGUESE
- 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:Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#PORTUGUESE
- 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, 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.Category:English terms with quotations#PORTUGUESE
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Portuguese terms
- Appendix:Portuguese Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Portuguese
Further reading
- 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

