Portuguese–English dictionary

Portsmouth

A city, unitary authority, and borough of Hampshire, in southern England.

Portugal

A country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. Official name: Portuguese Republic. Capital and largest city: Lisbon.

português

Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.

portuguesa

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

porventura

(as a pro-sentence) Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement).

pós

After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.

pós-

after; later.

pós-barba

a lotion, gel, or liquid used after finishing shaving

pós-escrito

(countable) An addendum to a letter, added after the author's signature.

pós-graduando

A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course.

pós-guerra

(US) Of the period following the American Civil War, especially used in reference to the South.

pós-natal

After being born, of or pertaining to the period immediately after birth (of a baby).

pós-operatório

Of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a surgical operation.

posar

(intransitive) To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.

Poseidon

(Greek god) The god of the sea and other waters, earthquakes and horses; corresponds to the Roman god Neptune.

posfácio

an epilogue.

posição

A position to which someone is assigned.

posicionamento

The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.

posicionar

(transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.

Posidão

(Greek god) The god of the sea and other waters, earthquakes and horses; corresponds to the Roman god Neptune.

Posídon

(Greek god) The god of the sea and other waters, earthquakes and horses; corresponds to the Roman god Neptune.

positiva

(physics) Electrically positive.

positivamente

(manner) In a positive manner.

positividade

(uncountable) The condition of being positive (in all senses); positivism. Optimism.

positivista

A believer in positivism.

positivo

pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming

pospor

(intransitive) To delay, to wait.

posse

The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.

Possêidon

(Greek god) The god of the sea and other waters, earthquakes and horses; corresponds to the Roman god Neptune.

possessão

A territory under the rule of another country.

possesso

controlled by evil spirits.

possibilidade

The state of being feasible or possible.

possibilitar

To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.

possível

Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

possivelmente

(as a pro-sentence) Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement).

possuído

controlled by evil spirits.

possuir

(transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.

posta

A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.

postal

Relating to the collection, sorting and delivery of mail.

postar

(ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.

poste

(basketball) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.

poste de luz

The pole that holds up a light so it can illuminate a wide area, such as holds up a streetlight.

postergar

To put off until a later time; to defer.

posteridade

All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.

posterior

(comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).

postigo

(usually, in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.

posto

An assigned station; a guard post.

posto avançado

A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops.

posto de controle

A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.

posto de controlo

A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.

posto de vigia

A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area.

postulado

Something that is posited; a postulate.

postular

(ambitransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.

postumamente

After death.

postura

The position of the body or way of carrying oneself.

pot-pourri

(music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece. [from 17thc.]

potassa

The water-soluble part of wood ash, used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer (chemically speaking, an impure form of potassium carbonate (K2CO3) mixed with other potassium salts).

potássio

A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element (symbol K) with an atomic number of 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983. The symbol is derived from the Latin kalium.

potável

(of water) Safe to drink.

pote

A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.

pote de mel

A pot of honey.

potência

(countable, uncountable) Power, strength, force, or influence held by a person or group.

potencial

Existing in possibility, not in actuality.

potencialmente

In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way.

potentado

A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler.

potente

Powerful; possessing power; effective.

potestade

(biblical, in plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.

potpourri

(music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece. [from 17thc.]

potra

A young female horse.

potranca

A young female horse.

potro

A young male horse.

Potsdam

A town in Buffalo City municipality, Eastern Cape province, South Africa.

Potter

An English surname originating as an occupation for a potter.

poucas

(preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.

pouco

Not much.

pouco a pouco

A small amount at a time

pouco ortodoxo

Unusual, unconventional, or idiosyncratic.

poucochinho

Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace.

poucos

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

poupa

Any Old World bird of genus Upupa, especially Upupa epops (Eurasian hoopoe), known for its distinctive plumage, fanlike crest, and slender bill.

poupança

(countable, usually, in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.

poupar

(transitive) To conserve.

pouquinho

Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace.

pousada

Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.

pousar

(also, figuratively) Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest.

pousio

(agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

pouso

A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.

pouso habitual

A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.

povão

The common people of a nation.

povo

(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.

povoado

A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

povoar

(transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

povoar-se

(intransitive) To become populous or populated.

poxa

(chiefly, British, informal, mildly, blasphemous) Used to show anger or disappointment: damn

poxa vida

(chiefly, British, informal, mildly, blasphemous) Used to show anger or disappointment: damn

PQP

(Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar) Initialism of fuck my life (expressing despairing annoyance).

pra burro

(colloquial, euphemistic) A minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.

pra caraças

(colloquial, euphemistic) A minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.

pra caralho

(postpositive, simile, somewhat, vulgar) To a great extent or degree; very.

pra caramba

(colloquial, euphemistic) A minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.

pra K7

(euphemistic, slang) .

praça

An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.

pradaria

An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.

prado

A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.

Praga

The capital city of the Czech Republic; the former capital of Czechoslovakia; the former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

pragmático

(idiomatic) Practical; realistic; pragmatic.

praguejar

To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

praguense

The capital city of the Czech Republic; the former capital of Czechoslovakia; the former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

praguicida

Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.

praia

A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.

prancha

A passage through the side of a ship or an opening in the railing through which the ship may be boarded; (, also, in, later use) a jet bridge.

prancha de desembarque

(nautical) A board or plank used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside or any gap such as scaffolding.

prancheta

(computing) A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or between applications.

prândio

A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.

prata

Of silver or silver-coloured.

pratada

As much as a dish will hold.

prataria

(collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.

prateado

Of silver or silver-coloured.

prateleira

(slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.

praticamente

Very nearly; everything short of. Most often precedes a verb or adjective.

praticante

A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.

praticar

(transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.

praticidade

(uncountable) The state of being practical or feasible.

prático

(idiomatic) Practical; realistic; pragmatic.

prato

(culinary) A stage of a meal.

prato de baixo

(kitchenware) A large decorative plate, sometimes used under dinner plates or other savoury-dish vessels in a multi-course meal; also service plate or underplate.

praxe

(US, Philippines) An initiation or behavior that involves humiliation, harassment or abuse, particularly in universities and in the military.

prazer culpada

(idiomatic) Something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo, unadvisable or lowbrow.

prazeroso

Having leisure time, especially as a result of not having to work for a living.

prazo

Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.

pre-

Before; earlier in time; beforehand.

pré-aquecer

(transitive) to heat beforehand or in advance, to heat something in preparation for further action

pré-aviso

An advance warning; an omen.

pré-bélico

Of the time period prior to a war.

pré-configurado

(transitive) To set something in advance.

pré-datar

To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date.

pré-escolar

Of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school.

pré-guerra

Of the time period prior to a war.

pré-história

The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.

pré-histórico

(properly) Of or relating to the epoch before written record.

pré-natal

Being or happening before birth.

pré-nupcial

Before marriage; before getting married.

pré-pago

Paid for in advance.

pré-posicionar

(sometimes, proscribed) .

pré-requisito

In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a prereq.

pré-visualização

(computing) A facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

pré-visualizar

(computing, transitive) To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

preâmbulo

A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.

preaquecer

(transitive) to heat beforehand or in advance, to heat something in preparation for further action

precariamente

In a precarious manner; dangerously.