Portuguese–English dictionary

culpado

Guilty of breaking the law.

culpar

(transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).

culpável

Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.

culposamente

(manner) In a way suggesting suspicion.

cult

Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.

cultivação

The art or act of cultivating (improvement of land for or by agriculture), as:

cultivado

Artificially developed.

cultivar

To propagate or grow (plants) in an effort to give (them) certain qualities.

cultivo

(agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

culto

(uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service. [from 10th c.]

cultuação

The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.

cultual

Of or relating to a cult.

cultuar

(transitive) To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.

cultura

(agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

cultural

Pertaining to culture.

culturalmente

Related to culture.

cume

The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.

cumeeira

The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.

cúmplice

One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]

cumplicidade

The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.

cumprimentar

(archaic) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.

cumprimentar-se

(intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.

cumprimento

An act of complying.

cumprir

(transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).

cumulativo

Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.

cunha

(woodworking) A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to provide additional surface for gluing.

cunhagem

The process of coining money.

cunhar

To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

cunho

An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.

cunilíngua

Performance of oral sex upon the vulva or vagina.

cupcake

A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.

Cupido

(Roman god) The god of love, son of Venus; sometimes depicted as a putto (a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow). The Roman counterpart of Eros.

cupim

A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.

cupinzeiro

A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.

cúprico

Made of copper.

cúpula

(architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.

cura

A method, device or medication that restores good health.

curador

A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.

curadora

A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.

curanchim

(medical, formal) The final (bottom-most) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.

curandeirismo

(countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.

curandeiro

One who heals, especially through faith.

curar

(transitive) To restore to health.

curare

A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.

curativo

A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.

curável

Capable of being cured.

curcuma

(cooking) The pulverized rhizome of the turmeric plant, used for flavoring and to add a bright yellow color to food.

Curdistão

A cultural region in West Asia inhabited mostly by the Kurds, encompassing parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.

curdo

A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.

curgete

(British, Ireland, uncountable) A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.

curinga

A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.

curioso

In eager desire, eager, astir.

curling

(uncountable) A winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice).

curral

An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.

currículo

(US) The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university.

curry

One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.

cursivo

(of writing) Having successive letters joined together.

curso

A series of lessons covering a single subject.

curso d'água

Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.

curso de água

Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.

cursor

A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.

curtida

(internet) An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.

curtido

(of leather) Finished, made using tannic acid (as opposed to abrasion).

curtidor

A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

curtimento

The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the easily decomposing skins of animals.

curtir

(dated, _, slang, transitive) To appreciate, or like.

curto

Short or concise.

curva

A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]

curvado

Having a curve or curves; curving.

curvar

(transitive) To cause to change direction.

curvar-se

(intransitive) To become curved.

curvas

A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.

curvejão

(zootomy) The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.

curvetear

(intransitive) To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.

curvo

Having a curve or curves; curving.

cuscuta

Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

cuscuz

A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.

cuspe

(uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.

cuspida

(countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.

cúspide

(anatomy) A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.

cuspidela

(countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.

cuspinho

(uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.

cuspir

(ambitransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.

cuspo

(uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.

custar

(transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.

custear

(transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.

custo

The amount of money levied for a service.

custódia

The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.

customização

The act of customizing something.

customizar

To build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications.

custoso

Of high cost; expensive.

Cutberto

A en given name.

Cuteberto

A en given name.

cuteleira

One whose business is making or dealing in cutlery.

cuteleiro

One whose business is making or dealing in cutlery.

cutelo

A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.

cúter

(nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.

Cuthbert

A en given name.

cutucador

One who pokes.

cutucão

A gentle push.

cutucar

(transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.

cuzão

(figuratively, US, _, slang, vulgar)

czar

(historical) An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.

czarina

(historical) An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar.

d.C.

(often, punctuated) Initialism of Anno Domini (borrowed from Latin); in the year of our Lord.

dâ

Disdainful indication that something is obvious.

da cartola

(idiomatic) In an unexpected or inexplicable manner of arrival or occurrence.

da hora

(slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful.

da manhã

(used after the hour) In the 12-hour period from midnight to noon (the first half of the day) when using the 12-hour clock.

da marinha

(military) Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.

da mesma forma

In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.

da última moda

(informal) Of, or in accordance with the latest trend, fashion or hype.

Dacar

The capital city of Senegal.

dacha

A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.

dachshund

A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.

dactilógrafo

A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.

dactilologia

The use of the fingers and hands to communicate ideas, especially by the deaf.

daddy issues

(informal) A complex, especially in a girl or woman, originating from an unhealthy relationship with one's father, causing one to behave erratically in romantic relationships.

dádiva

(countable) Something given liberally; a gift.

dadivar

To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.

dadivoso

Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed. [from 17th c.]

dado

Something known or assumed as fact, and is made the basis of reasoning or inference which an intellectual system of any sort (such as knowledge or theoretical framework) is constructed.

dado que

In consideration of the fact that.

Dafne

(Greek god) A dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus.

Dagmar

A en given name of Danish origin, in occasional use since the end of the 19th century.

daí

In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.

daikon

An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.

daime

Any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from this vine.

daimio

(historical) A lord during the Japanese feudal period.

Dakar

The capital city of Senegal.

dália

Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

Dalila

The mistress of Samson who betrayed him to the Philistines.

Dallas

A large city, the county seat of Dallas County, in northeastern Texas.

dalmaciano

Relating to Dalmatia or its people.

dálmata

Relating to Dalmatia or its people.

dalmatense

Relating to Dalmatia or its people.

dalmático

An extinct Romance language that was once spoken in Dalmatia.

dalmatino

Relating to Dalmatia or its people.

dama

A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.

dama de honra

A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.

damas

(board games, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.

Damasco

The capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE.

damasqueiro

The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

Damião

A en given name.

danar

(transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

dança

A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

dançar

(intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.

Dançarina

The second reindeer of Santa Claus.

dançarina exótica

(euphemistic) A stripper.

dançarino

(dance) A person who dances, usually as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.