Portuguese–English dictionary

Navarra

An autonomous community and province in northern Spain.

nave

A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.

nave espacial

(astronautics) A manned vehicle that flies through space.

navegação

Any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.

navegador

(computing, graphical user interface) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.

navegante

One who travels by sea.

navegar

(transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.

naveta

The vessel that holds incense before it is put into a censer.

navio corsário

(historical) A privately owned warship that acted under a letter of marque to attack enemy merchant ships and take possession of their cargo. [from 17th c.]

navio de guerra

(military, watercraft, chiefly, historical) A powerful armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails; a warship.

navio naufragado

A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains.

navio-almirante

(nautical, military) The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag.

Nazaré

A city in northern Israel.

nazcas

(archaeology) A culture that flourished from 100 BC to 800 AD in southern Peru.

nazi

(historical) Of or pertaining to the Nazi Party specifically, or to Nazism, neo-Nazism, or neo-Nazis more generally.

nazismo

The ideology of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP), being a form of fascism characterised by Adolf Hitler's cult of personality, hate propaganda, white supremacy, extreme bigotry (especially antisemitism and racism), eugenics, mass violence, genocide, ethnonationalist territorial expansion (Lebensraum) and state capitalism.

nazista

(historical) Of or pertaining to the Nazi Party specifically, or to Nazism, neo-Nazism, or neo-Nazis more generally.

NE

Initialism of northeast, a cardinal point of the compass.

nêbeda

Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.

neblina

(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.

nébula

(astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).

nebulosa

(astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).

nebuloso

Uncertain; unclear.

necessariamente

Inevitably; of necessity.

necessário

Essential, indispensable, required.

necessidade

(countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.

necessitado

In need; poor.

necessitar

(transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about. [from early 17th c.]

necrófago

An animal that eats dead and decaying flesh.

necromancia

Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.

necromante

A person who practices or performs necromancy.

necrópole

(chiefly, historical, also, figuratively) A cemetery; especially a large one in or near a city.

necropsia

(medicine) The pathological examination of a corpse, particularly to determine cause of death. [from 19th c.]

necropsiar

(transitive) To perform a necropsy on.

necrose

(pathology) The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.

necrotério

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

néctar

(chiefly, _, mythology) The drink of the gods. [from 16th c.]

néctar dos deuses

(chiefly, _, mythology) The drink of the gods. [from 16th c.]

nectário

(botany) A gland that secretes nectar

nécton

(zoology) All organisms in the ocean that are capable of swimming independently of currents.

neerlandês

Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.

neerlandeses

(collective) The people of the Netherlands, or one of certain ethnic groups descending from the people of the Netherlands.

nefasto

Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.

nefelibata

One who daydreams.

Nefertiti

A queen of Ancient Egypt, the chief consort of the pharaoh Akhenaten.

negação

A denial of knowledge, relationship, or responsibility towards something or someone.

negacionismo

The practice of rejecting propositions which are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence, and often of seeking to influence policy processes and outcomes accordingly.

negar

(transitive) To assert that something is not true.

negativa

(photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse. [from 19th c.]

negativamente

In a negative manner; so as to be damaging or not positive.

negativismo

A persistent pessimistic or skeptical attitude.

negativo

Being a negative quantity; pertaining to a deficit or reduction. [from 18th c.]

negligência

Lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.

negligenciar

(transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.

negligenciável

Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

negligente

Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes. [from 16thc.]

negligentemente

In a negligent manner: carelessly or inattentively.

negociação

The process of achieving agreement through discussion.

negociador

One who negotiates.

negociadora

One who negotiates.

negociante

A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

negociar

(transitive) To trade or barter.

negociável

Open to negotiation or bargaining.

negócio

(often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.

negócios

Business transactions.

negra

(countable, chess) The person playing with the black set of pieces.

negreira

An employer or supervisor who demands excessive amounts of work from an employee.

negreiro

An employer or supervisor who demands excessive amounts of work from an employee.

negridão

The state or quality of being black in colour.

negrito

(typography, of, _, typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.

negro

(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.

negror

The state or quality of being black in colour.

negrura

The state or quality of being black in colour.

negus

(historical) A ruler of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the king of Ethiopia before 1974.

Nélson

A en given name.

nem

(informal) No.

nem sequer

In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.

Némesis

(Greek god) The goddess of divine retribution.

nengum objeto

(informal) Nothing; absence of anything.

nenhum

(negative polarity item, or, interrogative, chiefly with plural or uncountable nouns) One at all; at least one; at least one kind of; some; a positive quantity of.

nenhum (dos dois)

Not one of two; not either; not one or the other.

nenhuma

Not any of a given number or group.

nenhuma coisa

Not any thing; no thing.

nénia

A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

neocolonizador

A neocolonial person.

neófito

(Internet) A new user or participant; someone who is extremely new and inexperienced (to a game or activity). A beginner.

neolítico

Of or relating to the New Stone Age.

néon

(countable) A form or sample of the element.

neonato

Recently born.

neônio

(countable) A form or sample of the element.

Nepal

A country in South Asia, located between China and India. Official name: Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Capital and largest city: Kathmandu.

nepotismo

The favoring of relatives (most strictly) or also personal friends (more broadly) because of their relationship rather than because of their abilities.

nerd

(slang, sometimes, _, derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted.

nerfar

(transitive, slang) To arbitrarily limit or reduce the capability of.

Nero

Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

nervosamente

In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.

nervosia

The state or quality of being nervous.

nervosismo

The state or quality of being nervous.

nervoso

(chiefly, US; informal in UK and Ireland) Angry, annoyed.

nervura

(botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.

nesga

(heraldry) A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.

nesse caso

(conjunctive) In that case.

nestorianismo

(Christianity) The Christological doctrine ascribed to Nestorius, condemned as heretical by the Council of Ephesus but later also ascribed to the Church of the East, holding that within Christ there are two distinct hypostases, divine and human.

net

(Internet) Usually preceded by the: all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet collectively, which are (1) stored in various inter-hyperlinked computers around the world, and (2) retrieved typically by means of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or (currently more often) its secure version (HTTPS), among others.

neta

A child of someone's child.

neto

A child of someone's child.

neura

(colloquial) Something that is personally annoying; a personal dislike.

neural

(biology) Of, or relating to the nerves, neurons or the nervous system.

neuralgia

(pathology, neurology) An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.

neurociência

The scientific study of the nervous system.

neurocirurgião

A surgeon specializing in brain surgery.

neuróloga

A doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.

neurologia

The branch of medicine that deals with the disorders of nervous system including the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system and the nerves, muscles, and neuromuscular junction of the peripheral nervous system.

neurológico

Dealing with neurology, the study of the nervous system or the health care specialty that provides care for it.

neurologista

A doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.

neurólogo

A doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.

neurónio

(cytology) A cell of the nervous system which conducts nerve impulses; a neuron.

neuropatia

(medicine) Any disease of the nerves and nervous system, usually and more specifically the peripheral nervous system, thus including both non-neuraxial and neuraxial instances of neural damage or dysfunction but excluding the neuraxis's psychiatric aspects (mental illnesses).

neuropsicologia

A branch of neurology and of clinical psychology that investigates the physiological basis of psychological processes.

neurose

(dated, pathology, ;, current in, _, psychology, and) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society. [from the 1700s]

neurótica

(medicine) A person who has a neurosis.

neurótico

(by extension) Overly obsessive concerning small details.

neurotoxina

(neuroscience, toxicology, pharmaceutical drug) A toxin that specifically acts upon neurons, their synapses, or the nervous system in its entirety.

neutral

(politics) Not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned.

neutralidade

The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side.

neutralizar

(transitive) To offset or equalize something.

neutrão

(particle) A subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and having no charge; it is a combination of an up quark and two down quarks.

neutrino

An elementary particle that is classified as a lepton, and has an extremely small but nonzero mass and no electric charge. It interacts with the surroundings only via the weak force or gravitation, making it very difficult to detect.

neutro

(grammar) Intransitive.

nêutron

(particle) A subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and having no charge; it is a combination of an up quark and two down quarks.

Nevada

A state in the western United States. Capital: Carson City. Largest city: Las Vegas.

nevado

Marked by snow, characterized by snow.

nevão

A large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow.

nevar

(intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.

nevasca

A large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow.

neve

(uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.

nevezinha

A light, brief snowfall.

nevo

A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.

névoa

(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.

nevoeiro

(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.

nevoso

Marked by snow, characterized by snow.

nevralgia

(pathology, neurology) An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.

Newcastle

A city in McClain County, Oklahoma, United States; a suburb of Oklahoma City.

newton

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of force; the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one metre per second per second.

ney

(music) A type of endblown flute.

nham

Indicating delight at the flavor of food.

nhandu

Rhea americana, a species of flightless bird native to eastern South America.

nhanha

(uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.

nhé

(slang) Expressing indifference or lack of enthusiasm.

nhoque

Italian pasta-like dumpling(s) made of potato or semolina.