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Etymology

From PortugueseCategory:English terms derived from Portuguese#PORTUGUESE português. By surface analysis, Portugal + -eseCategory:English terms suffixed with -ese#PORTUGUESE.

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Brazilian Portuguese

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

  1. Of or pertaining to Portugal.
  2. Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.
    Hypernym: European
  3. Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language.
    Hypernym: Romance

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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

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A person native to, or living in, Portugal.

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.

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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

  1. 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.
      Category:English terms with quotations#PORTUGUESE
      Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
    • 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

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