Portuguese–English dictionary

leguminoso

Of or relating to vegetables.

lei

(law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.

lei de Ohm

(physics) Ohm's observation that the direct current flowing in an electrical circuit consisting only of resistances is directly proportional to the voltage applied.

Léia

(biblical character) The elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob.

leia-se

Specifically; that is to say.

leiaute

(publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information

leigo

Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy.

leilão

A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.

leiloar

To sell at an auction.

leiloeiro

An individual who conducts an auction on behalf of a vendor, accepting bids to find the best price for the vendor.

Leipzig

An independent city in Saxony, Germany.

lêiser

A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam.

leita

The semen of a male fish.

leitão

A young pig.

leitaria

A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese.

leiteira

(historical) A girl or young woman who milks the cows on a farm.

leiteiro

(specifically) Referring to products produced from animal milk as opposed to non-milk substitutes.

leitelho

The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.

leitelho cultivado

Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.

leito

A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.

leito de morte

The bed on which someone dies.

leitor

(religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.

leitores

The collected readers of a publication.

leitoso

Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.

leitura

A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.

lelé

(informal) Crazy.

lema

(heraldry) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.

lembrança

A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.

lembranças

A greeting to pass on to another person.

lembrancinha

A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.

lembrar

To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

lembrar-se

(transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.

lembre-se de que é mortal, lembre-se da morte

An emblematic object or personal ornament, such as a skull, used as a reminder of one's mortality.

lembrete

(by extension, colloquial) Any communication to get somebody's attention.

lémingue

A small arctic and subarctic rodent of the tribes Lemmini, Dicrostonychini and Lagurini.

lêmure

Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).

Lemúria

(mythology) A mythical lost country, continent, or island proposed to explain the existence of lemurs and their relatives on two continents.

lenço

A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.

lenço de papel

A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.

lenda

(cartography) A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.

lendário

Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.

lêndea

The egg of a louse.

lenha

Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.

lenhador

A person whose work is to fell trees.

leniência

The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.

leniente

Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.

Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and politician.

Lenine

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and politician.

leninista

Of or relating to Leninism.

lentamente

(manner) At a slow pace.

lente

(biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.

lente de contacto

(informal) A contact lens.

lente de contato

(informal) A contact lens.

lentidão

The quality or state of being slow.

lentilha

(biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.

lento

Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

Leo

(zodiac constellations) A constellation of the zodiac, shaped approximately like a lion and containing the stars Regulus and Denebola.

leoa

A female lion (animal).

Leonardo

A surname transferred from the given name.

leone

A unit of currency of Sierra Leone, divided into 100 cents.

Leonel

A en given name of mostly British usage.

leonino

Someone with a Leo star sign

Leonor

A en given name.

leopardo

Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).

Leopoldo

A en given name. Used in the 19th century but rare today.

leprechaun

(Irish folklore) One of a race of elves that can reveal hidden treasure to those who catch them.

leprosa

A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.

leproso

A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.

leque

A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.

lequessá

One hundred thousand (10⁵): 100,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,000.

ler

(transitive) To read completely.

ler em diagonal

(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.

ler ligeiramente

(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.

ler na diagonal

(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.

ler superficialmente

(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.

ler-se

(ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.

lerdo

Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

lesa-pátria

The crime of betraying one’s own country.

lesão

The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

lesão corporal

(legal) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.

lesão em chicote

(countable) The lash of a whip.

lesão enorme

(medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.

lesar

(transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

lésbica

(of a woman) Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.

lésbico

(of a woman) Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.

lesivo

Causing damage; harmful, injurious.

lesma

Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. [from early 18th c.]

lesmar

(transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.

leste

(meteorology) Blowing (as wind) from the east.

letal

Causing death; lethal.

letão

Of, from, or pertaining to Latvia, the Latvian people or the Latvian language.

letargia

A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness. [from 14th c.]

letárgico

(figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.

Lete

(Greek mythology) The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.

Letícia

A en given name, popular in medieval England; rather rare today.

Letónia

A country in northeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Latvia.

letra

In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.

letrado

Able to read and write; having literacy.

letramento

The ability to read and write.

letreiro

Any large sign, especially when made of soft material or fabric.

letrista

A person who writes the lyrics of a song.

leucemia

(oncology, pathology) Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.

lev

The currency of Bulgaria, divided into 100 stotinki.

leva

Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.

levado

Mischievous; of or befitting an imp.

levantador

(volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.

levantamento

A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.

levantamento topográfico

The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.

levantar

(transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.

levantar voo

(idiomatic) To begin flying; to become airborne or aloft; to take off and fly

levantar-se

(intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.

Levante

A cultural region of West Asia, consisting of the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).

levar

(transitive) To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.

levar a

(intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act

levar aos ombros

(transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.

levar às cavalitas

(transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.

levar às costas

(transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.

levar na certa

(transitive, of a thing) To assume something to be true without verification or proof.

leve

(nautical, of a ship) Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.

levedura

Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.

levemente

In a light manner.

leveza

A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.

Levi

(biblical character) The third son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.

levianamente

In a light manner.

leviandade

A disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.

leviatã

(Bible, mythological creature) A vast sea monster of tremendous strength, either imaginary or real, described as the most dangerous and powerful creature in the ocean.

Levítico

The third of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible; the third book in the Torah.

lexema

(linguistics) A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form.

lexical

(linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language.

léxico

(linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language.

lexicologia

(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.

léxicon

A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic.

LGBT

Being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, or relating to these groups as a collective.

lhama

A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

Lhasa

The capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

lhe

With dative effect or as an indirect object. [from 9th c.]

Lia

(biblical character) The elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob.

liana

(botany) A climbing woody vine, usually tropical.

libação

(often, _, humorous) A beverage, especially an alcoholic one.

libanês

Of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon or the Lebanese people.

libelo

A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.

libélula

An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera, having four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body when perched.

liberação

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

liberal

Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←

liberar

(transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.

liberdade

(countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.

Libéria

A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Liberia.

libertação

An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.

libertador

A person who frees or liberates.

libertadora

A person who frees or liberates.