Portuguese–English dictionary

afrodisia

A state of sexual desire.

afrodisíaco

(Greek mythology) Pertaining to the Greek goddess Aphrodite.

Afrodite

(Greek god) The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea.

afronta

An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.

afrontar

(transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert [from around 1350 to 1470.]

afrouxar

(transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.

aftercare

(BDSM) Tender affection and physical care given to a partner after an activity, usually to serve as a transition between the activity and whatever follows it.

afundamento

The state of sinking or bending; a droop.

afundar

(transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to flood and sink, as a ship.

afundir

(transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to flood and sink, as a ship.

afundo

An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.

afunilamento

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

agá

An honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries.

agachamento

(weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.

agachar

(intransitive) To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.

agachar-se

To bend one's legs while upright to get to a lower position.

agalha

(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).

Agamemnon

(Greek mythology) One of the most distinguished heroes of Greek mythology. He is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope and the brother of Menelaus. He is famous for rallying the Greeks in the Trojan War, yet infamous for the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia at the commencement of the war.

Agamenão

(Greek mythology) One of the most distinguished heroes of Greek mythology. He is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope and the brother of Menelaus. He is famous for rallying the Greeks in the Trojan War, yet infamous for the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia at the commencement of the war.

Agamenon

(Greek mythology) One of the most distinguished heroes of Greek mythology. He is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope and the brother of Menelaus. He is famous for rallying the Greeks in the Trojan War, yet infamous for the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia at the commencement of the war.

ágape

(uncountable) Spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for others.

agapórnis

Any small parrot from one of the nine species within the genus Agapornis. Sometimes they are kept as cage birds and are noted for their affection towards each other.

Agar

(biblical character) The Egyptian concubine of Abraham, mother of Ishmael.

agarra

A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.

agarrador

(countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.

agarramento

(firefighting, slang) The rescue of a person from a burning structure.

agarrar

(transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.

agarrar(-se)

To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.

agarro

A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.

agasalho

(countable, clothing) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.

agasalho esportivo

(clothing) A garment, usually consisting of a top and trousers (commonly known as tracksuit bottoms) worn as an outer layer by participants in sporting events such as athletics. The tracksuit is usually designed to be easily removed or replaced, before or after competing. Tracksuits have also been adopted in some cultures as leisurewear.

Ágata

A en given name.

agave

Any plant in the large, variable genus Agave: succulent plants, commonly armed with formidable prickles; they flower at maturity after several years, and generally die thereafter; large species, such as the maguey or century plant, (Agave americana), produce gigantic inflorescences. Several are of economic importance as sources of fibre such as sisal, and alcoholic beverages such as tequila.

ageísmo

The treating of a person or people, especially older people, differently from others based on assumptions, prejudices or/and stereotypes relating to their age.

agem

Forming nouns indicating an action, process, or result.

agenciador de apostas

(gambling) A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie.

agenda

A list of planned events.

agendar

To create a time-schedule.

agénero

Without an associated gender (in any sense); not having a particular gender.

agente

A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. [from 16th c.]

agente funerário

A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.

agente mutagénico

Any agent or substance that can cause genetic mutation.

agente provocador

A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group, particularly by encouraging or committing illegal acts to discredit the group or expose them to prosecution; an instigator, troublemaker.

agh

Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.

ágil

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move.

agilidade

(uncountable) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; quickness of motion

agilizar

(transitive) To accelerate the progress of.

ágio

Forming nouns indicating a charge, fee, or toll.

agiota

Someone who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest, especially illegally. [1900]

agir

(obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.

agitador

One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others, for example political reformers.

agitar

(transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.

agitar-se

To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.

agitprop

(uncountable, also, attributively) Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

aglomeração

A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

aglomerado

(astronomy) A group of galaxies, nebulae, or stars that appear to the naked eye to be near each other.

aglomerador

Having a tendency to agglomerate.

aglomerar

To collect (animals, people, objects, data points, etc) into clusters (noun sense 1).

aglomerativo

Having a tendency to agglomerate.

aglutinativo

(grammar) Having words derived by combining parts, each with a separate meaning.

agnosia

(neurology) The inability to recognise objects by use of the senses.

agnóstica

A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity.

agnosticismo

The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.

agnóstico

Of or relating to agnosticism or its adherents.

agonia

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

agoniado

Feeling anguish; experiencing extreme discomfort or discontent.

agonizante

One who agonizes.

agonizar

(intransitive) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

agora

At the present time.

agora que

(often, with that) Since, because, in light of the fact.

agorafobia

The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.

agorismo

(politics, economics) A revolutionary political philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society by means of counter-economics (i.e. black market).

Agostinho

A en given name, notably borne by Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430), a church father and a writer.

agosto

The eighth month of the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, following July and preceding September.

agourento

Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.

agouro

A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.

Agra

A large city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.

agraciar

(obsolete) To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting or expending, with profit, or without too great a loss.

agradar

(intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.

agradável

Pleasant to the senses or the mind; pleasing, satisfying, palatable.

agradavelmente

In an agreeable or pleasing manner

agradecer

To express appreciation or gratitude toward (someone or something).

agradecido

Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful.

agradecimento

(obsolete)

agrafador

A device which binds together sheets of paper by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and simultaneously folding over the ends of the staple against the back surface of the paper.

agrafar

(transitive) To secure with a staple.

agrário

Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.

agravação

The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

agravamento

The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

agravante

An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

agravar

To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. [from 16th c.]

agravo

The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

agredir

(transitive) To attack, physically or figuratively; to assail.

agregar

(transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.

agremiação

(countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.

agressão

A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.

agressivamente

In an aggressive manner.

agressividade

(uncountable) The state or quality of being aggressive.

agressivo

Savage and aggressive.

agressor

The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

agressora

The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

agrícola

Of or pertaining to agriculture.

agricultor

One who practices agriculture, a farmer, a gardener.

agricultora

Synonym of farmworker.

agricultura

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock.

agrimensor

A person occupied with surveying: the process of determining positions on the earth's surface.

agrimensura

The applied science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.

agronegócio

(uncountable) Business (especially big business) connected to agriculture, either owning or operating large-scale farms, or catering to those who do. [from 1950s]

agronomia

The science of utilizing plants, animals and soils for food, fuel, feed, and fiber and more. To do this effectively and sustainably, agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, animal sciences and soil science.

agronômico

Of or pertaining to agronomy.

agrupamento

A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.

agrupar

(transitive) To put together to form a group.

água

(poetic, archaic, or, dialectal) A body of water, almost always a river, sometimes a lake or reservoir, especially in the names given to such bodies.

água de poço

Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.

água de poços

Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.

água do mar

The saltwater of a sea or ocean.

água salgada

Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.

água sanitária

(uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.

água subterrânea

Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.

água-de-colónia

Any of a family of fresh, citrus-based fragrances distilled using extracts from citrus, floral, and woody ingredients, said to have been developed in the early 18th century in Cologne, Germany.

água-neve

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Northeast US) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.

água-viva

An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.

aguaceiro

A sudden heavy rainstorm.

aguadeiro

Someone with an Aquarius star sign

aguar

(transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).

aguardar

(intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation. [mid-12th–mid-17th c.]

aguardente

(informal) High-proof alcoholic beverage, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans).

aguarrás

A volatile essential oil now obtained from such oleoresin of from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; a complex mixture of monoterpenes; now used as a solvent and paint thinner.

águas

(poetic, archaic, or, dialectal) A body of water, almost always a river, sometimes a lake or reservoir, especially in the names given to such bodies.

águas passadas

(idiomatic) That which happened a long time ago and not worth discussing any more.

águas passadas não movem moinhos

(intransitive, idiomatic) To disregard or ignore a past difficulty in a relationship or an offence (when dealing with another individual).

aguçado

Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.

aguçar

(transitive) To stimulate or make more keen.

agudamente

In an acute manner

agudez

The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.

agudeza

The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.

agudo

Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.

agueiro

A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

aguentar

(transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand. [from mid-12th c.]

águia-de-asa-redonda

Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.

águia-pesqueira

A bird of prey of genus Pandion that feeds on fish and has white underparts and long, narrow wings each ending in four finger-like extensions.

aguilhão

A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.

aguilhoar

(transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.

agulha

A needle with a small hook at one end, used to make crochetwork (a type of hand-knitted textile).

agulhão

Any of certain species of slender fish, principally of the family Belonidae, many usually found in shallow marine habitats.

agulhão-de-vela

Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira, with a crested dorsal fin and a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw.

ah

An expression of relief, relaxation, comfort, confusion, understanding, wonder, awe, etc. according to uttered inflection.

ahá

An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.

aham

Yes; yeah.

Ahasvero

A king of Persia, later identified with Xerxes.