Portuguese–English dictionary

cavalgada

(collective) A procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.

cavalgar

(ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. [from 8th c., transitive usage from 9th c.]

cavalheirismo

Courteous behaviour, especially that of men towards women.

cavalheiro

(historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.

cavalinho

(childish, or, endearing) A child's term or name for a horse.

cavalo

A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria, classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world. [from late 19th century]

cavalo de caça

A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.

cavalo de corrida

A horse that competes in races.

cavalo de Troia

(figuratively) A subversive person or device placed within the ranks of the enemy.

cavalo de vapor

Metric horsepower, a metric unit approximately equal to 735.5 watts.

cavalo malhado

A horse with a patchy coloration that includes a white color.

cavalo-vapor

Metric horsepower, a metric unit approximately equal to 735.5 watts.

cavanhaque

A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.

cavar

(intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.

cave

An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.

caveira

A human skull, as symbol of death.

caverna

A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

cavernícola

An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.

caviar

Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.

cavidade

(anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.

cavilha

A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

cavouco

Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.

Caxemira

A contested geographic region of South Asia in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, located between (and de facto divided between) India, Pakistan and China.

caxumba

(pathology) A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.

Cazã

The capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

Cazaquistão

A country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Kazakhstan.

CBR

(preceded by “the”) Initialism of w:British Broadcasting Corporation.

CDF

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

cê

The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

cear

(intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.

cecear

(intransitive) To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/θ/, /ð/). This is a speech impediment common among children.

ceceio

The act or a habit of lisping.

cecídia

(plant disease) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by various pathogens, especially the burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, such as that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).

cecídio

(plant disease) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by various pathogens, especially the burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, such as that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).

Cecília

A en given name.

Cecílio

A en given name.

ceder

(figurative) To surrender.

ceder passagem

(intransitive) To give way under force; to succumb to a force.

cedimento

The state of sinking or bending; a droop.

cedo

At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.

Cedrico

A en given name.

cédula de dois dólares

(US, informal) A two-dollar bill.

cédula eleitoral

(originally) A small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote.

cegamento

The act of causing blindness.

cegante

Very bright (as if to cause blindness).

cegar

(transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.

cego

(not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.

cegueira

(medicine) State or condition of sightlessness, often due to medical reasons.

CEI

Initialism of Commonwealth of Independent States.

ceia

An evening meal.

ceifa

(agriculture) The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.

ceifador

One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

ceifar

(transitive, figuratively, by extension) To kill or slaughter, or to injure by knocking down, especially in large numbers and in a ruthless manner.

ceifeira

A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

ceifeiro

One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

cela

The room to which a prisoner is confined in a prison.

celebração

Joyful festivities, especially as a celebration.

celebrar

(transitive, or, intransitive) To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.

célebre

famous or widely praised

celebridade

(countable) A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person. [from 19th c.]

celeiro

A granary; a store of grain.

célere

Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

celesta

(musical instruments) A musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.

celeste

of or related to Heaven and the divine.

celestial

of or related to Heaven and the divine.

celestina

(mineral) A mineral with orthorhombic crystals, SrSO4, colourless or white with blue and sometimes red shades.

celestita

(mineral) A mineral with orthorhombic crystals, SrSO4, colourless or white with blue and sometimes red shades.

celga

(uncountable, culinary) An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.

Célia

A en given name.

celibatária

One who is not married, especially one who has taken a religious vow not to get married, usually because of being a member of a religious community. [from 1869]

celibatário

(chiefly religious) Not married. [from 1827]

celofane

Any of a variety of transparent plastic films, especially one made of processed cellulose.

célsius

Related to a metric temperature scale, originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and its boiling point as 100 degrees, at standard atmospheric pressure. The standardized definition has 0.01 °C as the triple point of water, and a difference in temperature of 1 °C corresponds to 1⁄273.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point and the absolute zero.

celta

(historical) A member of one of the ancient peoples of Western Europe called Celtae by the Romans.

céltico

A branch of the Indo-European languages that was spread widely over Western and Central Europe in the pre-Christian era.

célula

(biology, now, chiefly, botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions. [from 14th c.]

celular

(US, NZ, AU, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.

celulite

The dimpled appearance of skin caused by the protrusion of subcutaneous adipose tissue, especially on a woman's hips and thighs.

celuloide

Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.

celulose

A complex carbohydrate that forms the main constituent of the cell wall in most plants and is important in the manufacture of numerous products, such as paper, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and explosives.

cem

A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.

cemitério

A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

cena

(informal) Something that one does not know the name of.

cenário

An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.

cenho

The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.

cenotáfio

A monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.

censo

(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

censo demográfico

(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

censor

(Ancient Rome, historical) One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.

censora

An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media.

censura

The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent undesirable media from being published or propagated.

censurador

An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media.

censuradora

An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media.

censurar

(intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.

censurável

Capable of being censored.

Centauro

(constellation) A spring constellation of the northern sky (and autumn of the southern sky) with the outline of a centaur. It includes the stars Alpha Centauri (Rigil Kentaurus and Toliman), Proxima Centauri, and Hadar.

centeio

The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]

centelha

A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire, resulting from an electrical surge or excessive heat created by friction.

centelhar

(intransitive) To give off a spark or sparks.

centena

(as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

centenário

The hundredth anniversary of an event or happening.

centésima

The person or thing in the hundredth position.

centésimo

The ordinal form of the number one hundred.

centígrado

Related to a metric temperature scale, originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and its boiling point as 100 degrees, at standard atmospheric pressure. The standardized definition has 0.01 °C as the triple point of water, and a difference in temperature of 1 °C corresponds to 1⁄273.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point and the absolute zero.

centilitro

(British spelling) A unit of volume or capacity of one hundredth of a litre. Symbol: cl

centímetro

(metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 10−2 metres. Symbol: cm

cêntimo

(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.

centípede

Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.

cento

A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.

centopeia

Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.

central

(anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb. [from 16th c.]

central telefónica

(telecommunication) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.

centralismo

A system that centralizes, especially an administration of some kind.

centrar

(transitive) To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.

centrífuga

By extension, any device which rotates in order to produce artificial gravity (in the form of centrifugal force)

centrifugar

To rotate something in a centrifuge, typically in order to separate its constituents.

centrista

Of, pertaining to, or advocating centrism.

Centro

A former administrative region of France, now named Centre-Val de Loire.

centro comercial

An enclosed shopping centre. [from 20th c.]

centro das atenções

(figurative) The center of attention; the highlight or most important part.

centro de mesa

A strip of fabric used to decorate or protect a table or dressing table.

centroide

(statistics, cluster analysis, of a cluster of points) the arithmetic mean (alternatively, median) position of a cluster of points in a coordinate system based on some application-dependent measure of distance.

centurião

(historical) An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.

CEO

(countable, business) Initialism of chief executive officer.

Ceos

(Greek god) The Titan of intelligence; the father of Leto and Asteria.

CEP

(UK, Irish) A sequence of letters and numbers added to a postal address to aid the sorting and delivery of post or mail.

cepa

(biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.

cera

(medicine, pathology) A waxy substance secreted by the ear.

cera de abelha

A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods.

cerâmica

(ceramics, often, attributive) An opaque, semi-porous ceramic made from clay and other compounds.

cerâmico

Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.

ceramista

One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.

Cérbero

(Greek mythology) The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.

cerca

(figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.

cerca de

Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. [from before 1150]

cerca viva

A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.

cercado

An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.

cercar

(transitive) To surround or hem in.

cerceta

A small dabbling duck, Anas querquedula, that breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa.

cerco

(military) A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.

cercopiteco

A member of the genus Cercopithecus of Old World monkeys, of sub-Saharan Africa, principally forests.

cereais

(uncountable) The grains of such a grass.

cereal

(countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.

cerebelo

(neuroanatomy) Part of the hindbrain in vertebrates. In humans it lies between the brainstem and the back of the cerebrum and is formed of two lateral lobes and a median lobe. It plays an important role in sensory perception, motor output, balance and posture.

cerebral

(anatomy, relational) Of or relating to the brain, cerebrum, or cerebral cortex.

cérebro

(in the plural) Intellect.

cereja

Of a bright red color; cherry red.

céreo

Made of wax.

cerimónia

A religious rite or ritual.

cerimônia de colação de grau

(sciences) A marking (e.g., on a container) indicating a measurement on a scale, usually one of many such markings.