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  2. Portuguese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Projections on Celtic vocabulary (some words may have come via French borrowings starting in the 12th century), toponyms and derivations in Portuguese, indicate over 3,000 words. [11] The Celtic substratum is often overlooked, [ 12 ] due to the strong Latinisation of Celtic-derived [ 13 ] words in Portuguese and the ancient linguistic threads ...

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  4. List of English words of Portuguese origin - Wikipedia

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    The list also includes words derived from other languages via Portuguese during and after the Age of Discovery. In other Romance language their imports from Portuguese are often, in a creative shorthand, called lusitanianisms a word which has fallen out of use in English linguistics as etymologists stress that few additions to any non- Iberian ...

  5. Category:Lists of loanwords - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help Subcategories. This category has the ...

  6. Portuguese profanity - Wikipedia

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    "Cabrão" male-only term used for men who have cheated. [3]"Caralho" (IU) is a swear word for penis and can be used as an interjection.One possible folk etymology relates it to a ship's crow's nest, and the negative connotation from the expression "vai para o caralho", meaning "go to the crow's nest", because of the heavy rocking of ships in the high sea.

  7. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  8. List of Portuguese words of Germanic origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Portuguese words that come from Germanic languages.Many of these words entered the language during the late antiquity, either as words introduced into Vulgar Latin elsewhere, or as words brought along by the Suebi who settled in Gallaecia [1] (Northern Portugal and Galicia) in the 5th century, and also by the Visigoths [2] who annexed the Suebic Kingdom in 585.

  9. Wikipedia:Language learning centre/Word list - Top 1000 words

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