Portuguese–English dictionary

monografia

A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.

monograma

A design or motif composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution; the letters are usually the initials of their names.

monolíngue

Knowing or using a single language; written or spoken in a single language.

Monopólio

(board games) A board game in which players use play money to buy and trade properties, with the objective of forcing opponents into bankruptcy.

Monopoly

(board games) A board game in which players use play money to buy and trade properties, with the objective of forcing opponents into bankruptcy.

monossilábico

Consisting of one syllable.

monossílabo

Consisting of one syllable.

monoteísmo

The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.

monotónico

(of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.

monótono

(of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.

monóxido

(chemistry) Any oxide containing a single oxygen atom in each molecule or formula unit.

mons

A member of a people living primarily in the Mon State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in Thailand.

monsenhor

(Roman Catholic) An ecclesiastic title bestowed on some Roman Catholic clerics by the Pope

Monserrate

An island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean. Official name: Montserrat.

monstruoso

Enormously large.

monta-cargas

The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.

montado

With one’s legs on either side.

montado em

With one’s legs on either side of.

montador molecular

(nanotechnology, countable) A nanodevice capable of assembling nanodevices, possibly including copies of itself, according to a plan.

montagem

The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.

Montana

A en given name, specifically from the name of the U.S. state.

montanha

(figuratively) A large amount of paperwork.

montanha de gelo

A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

montanha-russa

An amusement ride consisting of a train on a track that rises, falls, twists and turns.

montanhês

Of, relating to, or inhabiting mountains, especially above the timberline.

montanhismo

The sport of climbing mountains.

montanhista

A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure. [from 19th c.]

montanhoso

Having many mountains; characterized by mountains; of the nature of a mountain; rough (terrain); rocky.

montante

A European sword with a long, straight double-edged blade, a cruciform hilt, and a grip for two-handed use; prevalent from the 14th to 16th centuries.

montão

A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.

montar

(transitive) To put together.

monte

(countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

monte de feno

A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.

monteiro

A person employed to maintain the game for hunting and all associated materials and effects.

Montenegro

A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Capital and largest city: Podgorica. Part of Yugoslavia until 2003, then part of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.

montês

Of, relating to, or inhabiting mountains, especially above the timberline.

montesino

Of, relating to, or inhabiting mountains, especially above the timberline.

Montevidéu

The capital city of Uruguay.

Montgomery

The capital city of Alabama, and the county seat of Montgomery County.

montículo

A mound of earth.

montinho

(baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.

montoeira

A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.

montoeiras

A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.

montra

A large window at the front of a shop, behind which items for sale are displayed.

Montserrat

An island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean. Official name: Montserrat.

monumento

A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.

moonshine

(math, uncountable) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.

mor

Foremost in rank or importance.

mora

A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

morada

A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter. [from 17th c.]

moradia

(dated, or, legal) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. [Attested from (1350 to 1470) to the mid 18th century.]

morado

(tincture) A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).

morador

(Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian. [from 15th c.]

morador de rua

Lacking a permanent place of residence.

morador local

A person who lives in or near a given place.

moradora

(Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian. [from 15th c.]

moral

An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.

moralidade

(chiefly, in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.

moranga

(botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

morango

Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

morangueiro

The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.

morar

(transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand. [from mid-12th c.]

moras

A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.

moratória

(legal) An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments. [from 19th c.]

mórbido

(by extension) Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. [from 1770s]

morcego

Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.

morcego-vampiro

A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) [from later 18th c.]

morcela

A cooked sausage made out of meat (most often pork), blood and various other regional ingredients.

mordaça

A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.

mordaz

(figuratively) Keen; biting; vigorously articulate and effective; severe.

Mordecai

(Biblical character) One of the main personalities in the Book of Esther. He adopted and raised his cousin Esther and foiled a plot to assassinate the king.

morder

(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

mordida

A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.

mordiscar

To lightly bite (a person or animal, or part of their body), especially in a loving or playful manner; to nip.

mordisco

An act of taking a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, especially with the front teeth; the bite or bites so taken.

mordomo

The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.

moreia

(geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

morena

(of a person) Having brown hair.

Morfeu

(Greek god) The god and personification of dreams; according to the Roman poet Ovid, one of the sons of Somnus, the god of sleep.

morfina

(biochemistry, pharmaceutical drug) A crystalline alkaloid (4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-7,8-didehydromorphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.

morgado

The first child to be born to a parent or family.

morgue

A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

moribundo

Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

moringa

Any of several trees, of genus Moringa, that grow in tropical and subtropical India and Africa.

mormacento

(of weather) Hot and humid.

mormaço

(uncountable) Heavy humidity and stillness of the air.

mormo

An infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.

mórmon

(sometimes, _, proscribed) Of, or pertaining to, the faith established by Joseph Smith, Jr.

morno

(temperature) Between warm and cool.

moroso

Slow; having little motion.

morrão

Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.

morrediço

Approaching death; about to die; dying; expiring.

morrente

Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

morrer

(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

morrer de fome

(intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

morrião

(historical) A kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bevor. [from 16th c.]

morrinha

(countable, veterinary disease, chiefly, historical) Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle or other livestock, such as anthrax, babesiosis, or rinderpest; or a particular epizootic thereof; also, an infectious disease affecting other animals, such as poultry.

morrinhento

Having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.

morro

An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.

morsa

(US) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

morso

A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.

mortadela

A type of sausage; bologna.

mortal

Causing death; lethal.

mortalha

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

Morte

The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

morte fetal

The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.

morteiro

A cannon that combines certain characteristics of field guns and mortars, delivering projectiles with medium velocities, usually with relatively high trajectories; normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers.

mortiço

(figurative) Not exceptional; not worthy of special merit, attention, or interest; having no vitality.

mortífero

Causing death; lethal.

mortinatalidade

The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.

morto

(euphemistic) Synonym of dead (“those who have died”).

morto-vivo

(fiction, usually with the) The undead; zombies, vampires, etc.

morubixaba

A leader of a clan or tribe.

mosaico

Pertaining to Moses, or the writings and traditions attributed to him. [from 17th c.]

mosca

A shot which hits the centre of a target.

mosca volante

(ophthalmology) A threadlike speck in the visual field which seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour of the eye.

Moscou

A federal city, the capital and largest city of Russia.

Moscóvia

The Russian territory around and ruled from Moscow by grand princes until it became the nucleus of a united Russia, which its dynasty ruled first as czars (kings) from Moscow, later as emperors from Saint Petersburg.

moscóvio

The chemical element with atomic number 115.

moscovita

An inhabitant or native of Muscovy or Moscow.

Moscovo

A federal city, the capital and largest city of Russia.

moshar

(intransitive) To dance by intentionally jumping into and colliding with other, similarly behaving dancers, and performing other wild, aggressive, or spastic movements.

mosquete

A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.

mosquitinho

Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera.

mosquito

Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera.

mostajeiro-branco

Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Sorbus subg. Aria (now Aria edulis), native to Eurasia, especially common whitebeam.

mostarda

Of a dark yellow colour.

mostardeira

The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.

mosteiro

A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.

mosto

Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.

mostra

A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.

mostrador

The surface of a clock that contains the dial and hands (via the traditional design of clocks); such an arrangement on either a clock or a watch.

mostrar

(transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.

mostruário

A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.

mota

Any vehicle sharing some characteristics with a bicycle or motorbike, such as pedal power, a handlebar, or a saddle.

mota de neve

(vehicle) A vehicle with skis at the front and a caterpillar track at the rear, used for travelling over snow, sometimes as sport.

mote

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

motejo

Mockery; the act of mocking.

motilidade

(uncountable) The state of being motile (moving)

motim

A tumultuous assault or quarrel.

motinada

An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.

motivação

Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.

motivacional

Tending or intended to motivate.

motivado

Enthusiastic, especially about striving toward a goal.

motivar

(transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate.

motivo

(obsolete) (The) inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.

moto

Any vehicle sharing some characteristics with a bicycle or motorbike, such as pedal power, a handlebar, or a saddle.

motocicleta

An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.

motocross

(sports, motorcycling) A form of off-road motorbike racing.

motoneta

A small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame.