Portuguese–English dictionary

sendeiro

A road or other similar beaten path.

sendo que

(mostly, law) It being the fact that; inasmuch as. (Often used to begin recitals; sometimes emboldened or emphasized as a signifier.)

senecas

A member of a tribe of Native Americans in western New York state.

senectude

(biology) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.

Senegal

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

senescal

A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.

senescência

(biology) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.

senha

(military, security) A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.

senha de acesso

A string of characters used for authentication on a digital device.

senhor

A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

senhor da guerra

A military commander or bandit leader wielding civilian power in an area where the government is weak.

senhor feudal

A lord in a feudal system, one who bestows fiefs on vassals in exchange for homage, fealty, and obligations of personal services or rent.

Senhora

An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.

senhorita

(often disparaging or sarcastic) Used in a mock title to point out some quality, or alleged quality, of a girl or woman.

senhorzinho

A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.

senilidade

(mostly, uncountable) The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.

sénior

Someone older than someone else (with possessive). [from 15th c.]

seno

(trigonometry, mathematics) In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.

sensação

(figurative) Something that is very surprising, shocking, amazing or sensational.

sensato

Just; fair; agreeable to reason.

sensitivo

A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance, and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.

sensível

Emotionally sensitive.

senso

Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

senso comum

Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.

senso-comum

(slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.

sensor

(anatomy) An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect.

sensorial

Of the physical senses or sensation.

sensual

Sexually seductive.

sensualidade

(uncountable) The state of being sensual or sensuous.

sentar

To sit down; to take a seat.

sentença

(legal) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.

sentenciamento

(legal) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.

sentenciar

(transitive) To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.

sentencioso

Concise and meaningful.

sentido

(uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.

sentidor

(Philippines) a presumptive person; someone who bases on gut feeling, such as assuming or imagining that something said or done, whether positive or negative, was for a person despite having no concrete confirmation but gut feeling, or someone who assumes one's affection is reciprocated, or indulges in one's own wishful thinking or flatters oneself

sentimental

Emotionally sensitive.

sentimento

Emotion; impression.

sentinela

A person on watch for approaching enemy, police, danger, etc.

sentir

(intransitive) To search by sense of touch.

sentir (o) cheiro (de)

(transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.

sentir [[saudade|saudade(s)]]

(intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.

sentir [[saudade|saudade(s)]] de

(transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.

sentir falta de

(transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.

sentir o gosto (de)

(transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.

sentir prazer em

(transitive) To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of [from 16th c.]

sentir-se

(transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.

sépala

(botany) One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when such components are not fused into a single structure.

separação

The legal dissolution of a marriage.

separação dos poderes

A theoretical model for governance, common in democratic states, which features the division of sovereign power into at least three (but sometimes up to six) organs of state in order to forestall tyranny, by preventing the acquisition of a monopoly of power by a monarch or oligarchy; also, such an arrangement.

separadamente

In a separate manner; not together; apart.

separado

Having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse.

separador

(US) A strip of land between opposing lanes of a road.

separar

(intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.

separar-se

(idiomatic, intransitive, of a path or route) To diverge into two or more separate paths.

separatismo

A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).

separatista

Advocating or seeking the separation of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories.

sépia

Any squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened.

seppuku

A form of ritual suicide by disembowelment using a blade, practiced by Japanese samurai, especially to rid oneself of shame, as a means of protest, or, formerly, as a method of capital punishment.

sepse

(pathology) A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.

sépsis

(pathology) A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.

septicemia

(medicine, pathology) A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterized by chills and fever.

séptico

Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage.

septilhão

(dated, UK, Australia, long scale) A million trillion (logic: 1,000,0004): 1 followed by twenty-four zeros, 1024.

sepulcro

A burial chamber.

sepultamento

The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.

sepultar

To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.

sepultura

The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.

sequela

Any delayed effect; an effect which is not immediately manifested.

sequência

Something that comes after another thing.

sequencialmente

(sequence) Next in order of place.

sequestrador

One who abducts; a kidnapper. [mid 19th century]

sequestrar

(transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. [Early 17th century.]

sequestro

(legal) The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being. [from mid-18th century.]

sequioso

(informal, uncommon) Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.

séquito

A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.

sequoia

(uncountable) Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

sequoia-vermelha

(uncountable) Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

ser

Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.

ser domado

(intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.

ser grata

(transitive) To be grateful or thankful for.

ser grato

(transitive) To be grateful or thankful for.

ser humano

The genus Homo.

ser igual a

(mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.

ser lançado

(intransitive) to make one's initial formal appearance

ser péssimo

(chiefly, North American, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. [from 20th c.]

ser ruim

(intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes, _, considered, _) To be very undesirable.

ser soprado

(intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.

ser suficiente

(intransitive) To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough.

ser um fiasco

(intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).

ser um pesadelo

Resembling a nightmare.

ser um saco

(chiefly, North American, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. [from 20th c.]

ser uma bosta

(chiefly, North American, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. [from 20th c.]

ser uma droga

(chiefly, North American, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. [from 20th c.]

ser uma merda

(intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes, _, considered, _) To be very undesirable.

ser uma porcaria

(intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes, _, considered, _) To be very undesirable.

serafim

(post-biblical) A six-winged angel; one of the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God.

serapilheira

(US) A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc.

sereia

A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.

sereio

A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.

serelepe

Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy

serendipidade

An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident.

serendipismo

An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident.

serendipitia

An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident.

Serengeti

A geographic region and ecosystem in Tanzania and southern Kenya, known for hosting the largest and longest overland semiannual migration of herd animals in the world.

serenidade

The absence of mental turmoil or anxiety.

sereno

(uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.

Serguei

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Серге́й (Sergéj).

seriado

Published or produced in installments.

serial

Having to do with or arranged in a series.

seriamente

With considerable commitment, determination, or effect; significantly.

série

An array of similar things.

seriedade

Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence)

seringa

A device consisting of a hypodermic needle, a chamber for containing liquids, and a piston for applying pressure (to inject) or reducing pressure (to draw); a hypodermic syringe.

sério

Intent; focused; showing a lot of concentration.

sério?

(informal) Indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism.

sermão

A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

serotonina

(neurotransmitter) An indoleamine neurotransmitter, 5-hydroxytryptamine, that is involved in depression, appetite, etc., and is crucial in maintaining a sense of well-being, security, etc.

serpe

(archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.

serpear

(intransitive) To move about smoothly and from side to side.

serpentão

(musical instruments) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).

serpentar

(intransitive) To move about smoothly and from side to side.

serpentária

Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites.

serpente

A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America

serpentear

(intransitive) To move about smoothly and from side to side.

serpentiforme

Having the form or shape of a snake.

serpentina

Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.

serpentino

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.

serra

Sarda sarda, of the shallower waters of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea.

serra de recortes

A power saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal.

serra de rodear

A saw consisting of a metal frame having a fine-toothed narrow blade held under tension, used in making curved cuts.

serra de vaivém

A power saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal.

serra tico-tico

A power saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal.

serrador

One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.

serragem

The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.

serralheiro

A person who forges iron.

serralho

A palace of a sultan.

serraria

A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber, or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.

serro

A chain of mountains.

serrote

A saw small enough to be used by one hand.

sertão

(uncountable) Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.

sérum

(skincare) A skincare product of varying consistencies with a high concentration of one or more active ingredients, for a targeted purpose, such as preventing acne, repairing sun damage, or moisturizing.

servente

Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.

server

(computing) A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network.

sérvia

A person of Serb descent (not necessarily from Serbia). (Compare Serbian.)

serviçal

A female servant; a maid.

serviço

A formalized period of communal worship, often but not exclusively occurring on Sunday, or Saturday in the case of those churches practicing Sabbatarianism.

serviço de atendimento ao cliente

The act of providing services to customers before, during and after a purchase.

serviço de mesa

Items of cutlery, crockery and glassware, and sometimes a place mat, arranged for a person at a dining table.

serviço doméstico

domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking