" Civilizado " ( stress on / za /) is Spanish and Portuguese for " civilized " but can also be understood as a suppressed final " r " in the word " Civilizador " ( stress on / do /) ( Civilizer ).

The variant spellings are necessary in those cases because the general Portuguese spelling rules mandate a stress diacritic in those words, and the Portuguese

* Brazilian Portuguese uses, which in most dialects triggers palatalization of a preceding or, e. g. " bullying " > ; " nerd " > ; " stress " > ( which became estresse ); " McDonald's " > with normal vocalization of to.

But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.

Of course, the " substrate " of Angolan culture is African, mostly Bantu, while Portuguese culture has been imported.

An African influence is evident in music and dance, and is moulding the way in which Portuguese is spoken, but is almost disappearing from the vocabulary.

In Portuguese, estado-unidense ( or estadunidense ) is the recommended form by language regulators but today it is less frequently used than americano and norte-americano.

He is generally considered a world conquest military genius, given his successful strategy: he attempted to close all the Indian Ocean naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific, transforming it into a Portuguese mare clausum established over the Ottoman power and their Muslim and Hindu allies .< ref >

The first assembly of the estates-general convened at Lamego ( wherein he would have been given the crown from the Archbishop of Braga, to confirm his independence ) is a 17th century embellishment of Portuguese history.

* 1542 – Turkish-Portuguese War ( 1538-1557 ) – Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.

* 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.

* 1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.

It is also similar to the use of quotation marks in many other languages ( including Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Dutch and German ).

The word negro is the Spanish and Portuguese word for the color black.

Although Afrikaans adopted words from languages such as Malay, Portuguese, the Bantu languages, and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95 percent of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin.

In Brazil, the brew and the vine are informally called either caapi or cipó ; the latter is the Portuguese word for liana ( or woody climbing vine ).

This air base is a joint American and Portuguese venture.

Aveiro is sometimes called " The Portuguese Venice ", because of its canals and boats that remind one of the Italian city of Venice, as the city faced similar problems when it tried to conquer the water.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..

The game of Crown Green Bowls is looking to grow with the introduction of the Portuguese Masters in October and recent interest from Sky TV to re-televise the sport.

Portuguese soldiers sometimes stated it took more than one dragoon to capture a quilombo warrior, since they would defend themselves with a strangely moving fighting technique.

Mistelle (; ; Spanish, Portuguese, Galician and, from Latin / " mix ") is sometimes used as an ingredient in fortified wines, particularly Vermouth, Marsala and Sherry, though it is used mainly as a base for apéritifs such as the French Pineau des Charentes.

French sometimes use this expression in a blend of the Portuguese and Spanish meaning.

Titles of games were translated into Portuguese, sometimes creating a new story, like Pick-axe Pete, that became Didi na Mina Encantada ( Didi in the Enchanted Mine ) referring to the Renato Aragão's comedy character, and was one of the most famous Odyssey games in Brazil.

In European languages other than English the corresponding words for " sect ", such as secte ( French ), secta ( Spanish ), seita ( Portuguese ), sekta ( Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian ), sekt ( Danish, Estonian, Norwegian, Swedish ), sekte ( Dutch ), Sekte ( German ) or szekta ( Hungarian ), are used sometimes to refer to a harmful religious or political sect, similar to how English-speakers popularly use the word " cult ".

Among the Romance languages the vocative was preserved in Romanian: it is also visible sometimes, in languages such as Catalan or Portuguese which employ the personal article but drop it in front of vocative forms.

* Brazilian Portuguese: negro and preto are neutral, nevertheless preto can be offensively used, is sometimes regarded as ' politically incorrect ' and almost never proudly used by afro-Brazilians, crioulo and macaco are always extremely pejorative

Other cnidarians, such as the jellyfish Cyanea capillata ( the " Lion's Mane " made famous by Sherlock Holmes ) or the hydrozoan Physalia physalis ( Portuguese Man o ' War, " Bluebottle ") can cause extremely painful and sometimes fatal stings.

The Portuguese text says: " Our generation sometimes has difficulty distinguishing between ' j ' and ' z '"

The masculine and feminine forms of other adjectives derived from Portuguese are sometimes used with Portuguese loanwords, particularly by Portuguese-educated speakers of Tetum.

Luís Vaz de Camões (; sometimes rendered in English as Camoens ; c. 1524 – 10 June 1580 ) is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet.

Ferdinand I ( Fernando, ; Lisbon, 31 October 1345 – 22 October 1383 in Lisbon ), sometimes referred to as the Handsome ( Portuguese: o Formoso, or o Belo ), occasionally as the Inconstant ( Portuguese: o Inconstante ), was King of Portugal and the Algarve, the second ( but eldest surviving ) son of Peter I and his wife, Constance of Castile.

In recent years some churches have scheduled their " Midnight " Mass as early as 7 pm In Spanish-speaking areas, the Midnight Mass is sometimes referred to as Misa del Gallo, or " Missa do Galo ", in Portuguese (" Rooster's Mass ").

In Macao, Chinese names are similarly sometimes still transliterated based on Portuguese orthography.

Tristão da Cunha ( sometimes misspelled Tristão d ' Acunha ; ; c. 1460 – c. 1540 ) was a Portuguese explorer and naval commander.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Portuguese visitors and their South Asian lascar ( and sometimes African ) crewmembers often engaged in slavery in Japan, where they bought or captured young Japanese women and girls, who were either used as sexual slaves on their ships or taken to Macau and other Portuguese colonies in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and India.

She married Felipe D ' Aquino ( last name sometimes given only as Aquino ), a Portuguese citizen of Japanese-Portuguese descent, on April 19, 1945.

In countries where Spanish, Portuguese, or French are spoken, and especially on the Iberian peninsula and in Latin America, a gesture called the bras d ' honneur involving raising a fist and slapping the biceps on the same arm as the fist used, sometimes called the Iberian slap or Iberian finger, is equivalent to the finger.

Descriptions of Melungeons have varied widely over time ; in the 19th and early 20th century, they were sometimes called or identified as " Portuguese ," " Native American ," or " light-skinned African American ".

During the nineteenth century, free people of color sometimes identified as Portuguese or Native American in order to avoid being classified as black in the segregated slave societies.