Portuguese–English dictionary

cônego

A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

conexão

(anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.

confeccionar

To make by hand and with much skill.

confederação

An alliance.

confeitaria

(uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.

confeiteira

A manufacturer of or dealer in confections (sweets, candies, sweet pastries, and other sweet food items).

confeiteiro

A manufacturer of or dealer in confections (sweets, candies, sweet pastries, and other sweet food items).

confeito

(countable, chiefly, North America, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.

conferência

A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.

conferir

(transitive, legal) To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.

confessionário

(Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.

confete

Small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory celebrations.

confiabilidade

The quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy.

confiança

Self-assurance.

confiante

Very sure of something; positive.

confiantemente

In a confident manner; with confidence; with strong assurance; positively.

confiar

(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).

confiável

Able, or easily able to be depended on.

confidência

A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.

confidencial

Kept, or meant to be kept, secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly

confidencialidade

(uncountable) The property of being confidential.

confidencialmente

In a confidential manner.

confidente

A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.

configuração

The form of a thing, as depending on the relative placement of the parts of a thing's shape.

configuração inicial

(electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory

configuração padrão

(electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory

configurar

(transitive) To set up or arrange something in such a way that it is ready for operation for a particular purpose, or to someone's particular liking

confim

(mostly, in the plural) A boundary or limit.

confinado

Confined in, or as if in, a pen; imprisoned.

confinamento

The act of confining or the state of being confined.

confinar

(transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds. [from 17th c.]

confirmação

A ceremony of sealing and conscious acknowledgement of the faith in many Christian churches, typically around the ages of 14 to 18; considered a sacrament in some churches, including Catholicism, but not in most Protestant churches.

confirmar

(transitive) To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form.

confirmatório

Serving to confirm something.

confiscação

The act or process of confiscating.

confiscar

(transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

confisco

The act or process of confiscating.

conflagração

A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

conflitar

(intransitive) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible

conflito

A skirmish, a hostile encounter.

conflituoso

Pertaining to a confrontation; characterized by, or given to initiating hostile encounter; in-your-face.

confluência

The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; a confluence.

conformar-se

(intransitive, of things or procedures) To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.

conforme

Based on what is said or stated by; on the authority of; by the order of.

conformemente

(manner) Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably

conformidade

(uncountable) The state of being compliant.

conformismo

(uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.

confortador

A person who comforts someone who is suffering.

confortar

(obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

confortável

(idiomatic) At ease; comfortable.

conforto

Contentment, ease.

confrades

(figuratively) The body of members, especially of a fraternal, religious or military order.

confraria

(figuratively) The body of members, especially of a fraternal, religious or military order.

confrontacional

Pertaining to a confrontation; characterized by, or given to initiating hostile encounter; in-your-face.

confrontar

(transitive) To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.

confronto

A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

Confúcio

An influential Chinese philosopher who lived 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.; personal name Kong Qiu (孔丘).

confundido

chaotic, jumbled or muddled

confundir

(transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350).]

confusa

contorted

confusão

The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]

confuso

Thoroughly confused, puzzled

congelado

Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.

congelador

An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

congelamento

An injury suffered as a result of freezing of some part of the body, typically fingers, toes or the nose.

congelante

Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.

congelar

(intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

congenialidade

The quality of being congenial; the state of being agreeable or of having similar tastes.

congénito

(of a trait or a disease) Present since birth.

congestionamento

(countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.

congestionar

(transitive) To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.

conglomerado

(business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.

congo

A Bantu language (or family of languages) of Central Africa.

congratulações

Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.

congratular

To express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for; to felicitate.

congregação

A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.

congregar

(intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.

congressista

A male member of congress.

congruência

The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.

conhaque

(uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.

conhecedor

A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste.

conhecer

(transitive) To become acquainted with (someone or something); to meet someone.

conhecida

A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.

conhecido

(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. [from 14th c.]

conhecimento

Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. [from 14th c.]

conicidade

A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).

cónico

Narrowing gradually towards a point.

conífera

(botany) A plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.

conivente

that connives

conjectura

(mathematics, colloquial, nonstandard) A mathematical statement that is expected to be true.

conjectural

In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.

conjeturar

To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.

conjeturas

An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.

conjugação

The coming together of things; union.

conjugado

Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.

conjugal

Of or relating to marriage, or the relationship of spouses; connubial.

conjugar

(grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.

cônjuge

A person in a marriage or marital relationship.

conjunção

The coming together of things; union.

conjunto

Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.

conjunto de ferramentas

A set of tools kept together, especially comprising all the tools suitable for some particular type of work.

conjunto unitário

(mathematics) A set with exactly one element.

conjuntura

A combination of events or circumstances; a conjunction; a union.

conjurador

One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.

conjurar

(transitive) To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.

connaisseur

A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste.

Connecticut

A state in the northeastern United States.

conosco

In company; together.

conotação

(semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

conotativo

that implies or suggests something else

conquanto

Though, even though, in spite of or despite the fact that: introducing a clause that expresses a concession.

conquilha

(zoology) A marine bivalve mollusc, of the genus Tellina, that burrows in the sand, from where it siphons detritus.

conquista

The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.

conquistador

One who conquers

conquistar

To defeat in combat; to subjugate.

conquistável

Within easy reach; accessible

Conrado

A en given name.

consagração

The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.

consagrar

(transitive) To declare something holy, or make it holy by some procedure.

consanguíneo

Related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.

consciência

(chiefly, fiction, narratology) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.

conscientemente

In a conscious manner; knowingly, volitionally.

conscrição

Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

conscrito

Drafted into a military service or similar.

consecutivamente

In a consecutive manner; without interruption.

consecutivo

following, in succession, without interruption

conseguido

Resulting in success; assuring or promoting success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect.

conseguir

(transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.

conseguir pagar

To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; (usually, after an expression of ability, as could, able, difficult) to be able or rich enough; to spare.

conseguível

Capable of being achieved, which either means possible or probable.

conselheira

In particular, a representative elected to a local authority, such as a city council: a city councillor.

conselheiro

In particular, a representative elected to a local authority, such as a city council: a city councillor.

conselho

(uncountable) An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.

consenso

(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

consensual

With permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting.

consentimento

Voluntary agreement or permission.

consentir

(intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way. [from 16th c.]

consequente

having some logical sequence

consequentemente

(conjunctive) In natural sequence; consequently; so.

consertar

(transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).

conserto

(countable) An act of repairing.

conservada

Remaining; left behind; extra; odd; in reserve.

conservado

(often, in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.

conservador

Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.

conservadorismo

A political philosophy that advocates traditional values.

conservante

Any agent, natural or artificial, that acts to preserve, especially when added to food.

conservar

(transitive) To conserve.

conservatório

(music) A music academy.

consideração

One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. [from 16th c.]

considerando

(legal) A formal, preliminary statement in a deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded, prior to a positive allegation.