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| l {letter} | :: letter |
| l {letter} [humorous, possibly, offensive] | :: Sometimes, the consonant r is changed to l when depicting stereotypical speech of a Chinese person |
| L {letter} | :: letter |
| la {pron} /lɐ/ | :: alternative form of a |
| lá {adv} /la/ | :: there (in that place, far from both the speaker and the audience) |
| lá {adv} | :: used with an adverb phrase to indicate that something is far |
| lá {adv} | :: [colloquial, in negative phrases] that; particularly (to a significant extent) |
| lá {adv} | :: [colloquial, in interrogative phrases] even (expresses intensified disagreement with a previous sentence) |
| lá {m} | :: [music] la (sixth note of a major scale, in solfège) |
| lá {interj} | :: meaningless syllable used in joyful singing |
| là {adv} | :: obsolete spelling of lá |
| lâ {adv} | :: obsolete spelling of lá |
| lã {f} /ˈlɐ̃/ | :: wool |
| Laayoune {prop} {f} | :: Laayoune (city) |
| labaça {f} | :: dock (any of the weedy herbs in the genus Rumex) |
| labareda {f} | :: blaze |
| lábaro {m} | :: labarum |
| lábaro {m} | :: flag |
| lábdano {m} | :: alternative form of ládano |
| labéu {m} | :: stain on someone's reputation, dishonour |
| lábia {f} /ˈla.βjɐ/ | :: cunning in convincing or persuading someone |
| lábia {f} | :: ruse |
| labiada {f} | :: specimen of the Lamiaceae family of plants |
| labiado {adj} | :: having the shape of lips; liplike |
| labial {adj} | :: labial (of or pertaining to the lips) |
| labial {adj} [phonetics] | :: labial (articulated by the lips) |
| labial {f} [phonetics] | :: labial (a consonant articulated by the lips) |
| labialização {f} [phonetics] | :: labialisation (rounding of the lips during pronunciation) |
| lábio {m} /ˈla.βi.u/ | :: lip (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth) |
| lábio {m} | :: labium (liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva) |
| lábio {m} | :: labium (lip of a labiate corolla) |
| lábio leporino {m} [teratology] | :: harelip (congenital malformation of the upper lip) |
| lábios maiores {mp} [anatomy] | :: labia majora (outer folds of vulva) |
| lábios menores {mp} [anatomy] | :: labia minora (inner folds of skin within the cleft of the labia majora) |
| labiríntico {adj} | :: labyrinthine (physically resembling a labyrinth) |
| labiríntico {adj} | :: labyrinthine; convoluted (intricate and complicated) |
| labirintite {f} [pathology] | :: labyrinthitis (inflammation of the labyrinth of the inner ear) |
| labirinto {m} | :: labyrinth, maze |
| laboral {adj} /ˌla.bo.ˈɾaw/ | :: Of or pertaining to labor |
| laboratorial {adj} | :: laboratory (attributive) |
| laboratório {m} /lɐ.βu.ɾɐ.ˈtɔ.ɾju/ | :: laboratory (room, building or institution equipped for scientific research) |
| laborioso {adj} | :: laborious; toilsome (requiring much physical effort) |
| laborioso {adj} | :: laborious; industrious (hard-working and persistent) |
| labrador {m} | :: Labrador (dog breed) |
| Labrador {prop} {m} /ˌla.bɾa.ˈdoʁ/ | :: Labrador (traditional region) |
| Labrador {m} | :: alternative case form of labrador |
| labro {m} [anatomy or poetic] | :: upper lip |
| labro {m} [entomology] | :: labrum (the uppermost of the mouthparts of insects) |
| labuta {f} | :: toil, drudgery |
| labutando {v} | :: gerund of labutar |
| labutar {v} | :: to toil, labour |
| labutar {v} | :: to plod |
| laca {f} | :: lake (red colouring agent) |
| laca {f} | :: lac (resinous substance produced by insects) |
| laçadeira {f} [sewing] | :: shuttle hook |
| lacaio {m} | :: lackey, minion, servant |
| laçando {v} | :: gerund of laçar |
| laçar {v} /lɐ.ˈsaɾ/ | :: to lasso (to capture with a lasso) |
| laçar {v} | :: to lace; to lace up (to fasten something with laces) |
| laçar {v} | :: to enlace (to bind or encircle with a laces) |
| lãçar {v} [obsolete] | :: abbreviation of lançar |
| lã cardada {f} | :: worsted (fine smooth wool fabric) |
| lacassá {num} [India] | :: lakh (one hundred thousand) |
| lacedemónio {adj} [European orthography] | :: Lacedaemonian (of, from or pertaining to Lacedaemonia) |
| lacedemónio {m} [European orthography] | :: Lacedaemonian (inhabitant of Lacedaemonia) |
| lacedemônio {adj} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of lacedemónio |
| lacedemônio {m} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of lacedemónio |
| laceração {f} | :: laceration |
| Lacerdópolis {prop} | :: Lacerdópolis (municipality) |
| lacinho {m} /la.ˈsi.ɲu/ | :: diminutive of laço |
| Lácio {prop} {m} /ˈla.sju/ | :: Lácio (region) |
| laço {m} /ˈla.su/ | :: any type of tie that is easily undone |
| laço {m} | :: lasso (long rope with a sliding loop on one end) |
| laço {m} | :: lace; shoelace |
| laço {m} [figurative, usually plural] | :: bond; tie (strong connection between people) |
| Laconia {prop} {f} | :: obsolete spelling of Lacónia |
| Lacónia {prop} {f} [European orthography] /la.ˈko.ni.ɐ/ | :: Lacónia (region) |
| Lacônia {prop} {f} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of Lacónia |
| lacónico {adj} [European orthography] | :: alternative form of lacônico |
| lacônico {adj} [Brazilian orthography] /la.ˈko.ni.ku/ | :: laconic (using as few words as possible) |
| lacração {f} [Brazil, neologism, often pejorative] /la.kɾa.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ | :: excessive political correctness and progressive militancy |
| lacraia {f} | :: centipede (segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda), especially one that is venomous |
| lacrar {v} | :: to seal |
| lacrar {vi} [Brazil, neologism] | :: to do something very well so that one gets popular attention |
| lacrar {vi} [Brazil, neologism, pejorative] | :: to act or say something in the context of political correctness and militancy |
| lacrau {m} /lɐ.ˈkɾaw/ | :: scorpion |
| lacre {m} | :: seal (wax or resin used to seal letters) |
| lacre {m} | :: seal (object which will be visibly damaged when covering or container is opened) |
| lacrimal {adj} /la.kɾi.ˈmaw/ | :: lachrymal (relating to tears) |
| lacrimal {adj} | :: which produces tears |
| lacrimal {m} [skeleton] | :: lacrimal bone |
| lacrimejando {v} | :: gerund of lacrimejar |
| lacrimejante {adj} [of eyes] | :: tearful |
| lacrimejar {v} | :: to get watery eyes, as in a prelude for crying; |
| lacrimoso {adj} | :: lachrymose; tearful (having tears on one’s eyes; about to cry) |
| lacrimoso {adj} | :: lachrymose (causing tears, or emotional distress) |
| lacrosse {m} [sports] | :: lacrosse |
| lactação {f} | :: lactation, breastfeeding |
| lactama {f} [organic compound] | :: lactam (nitrogen analogue of lactones) |
| lactase {f} [enzyme, organic compound] | :: lactase (a β-galactosidase enzyme) |
| lácteo {adj} /ˈlaktju/ | :: dairy (relating to milk-based products or processes) |
| lácteo {adj} | :: milky (resembling milk) |
| lácteo {adj} | :: lactic, milk (attributive) (of, or relating to milk) |
| lacticínio {m} | :: obsolete spelling of laticínio |
| láctico {adj} | :: lactic (of, relating to, or derived from milk) |
| lactodensímetro {m} | :: lactometer |
| lactómetro {m} | :: lactometer |
| lactose {f} [carbohydrate] | :: lactose (disaccharide sugar of milk) |
| lacuna {f} | :: hiatus (gap in a series) |
| lacuna {f} | :: blank (space to be filled in) |
| Lada {m} | :: Lada (a Russian car model) |
| ladainha {f} [religion] /lɐ.ðɐ.ˈi.ɲɐ/ | :: litany (prayers recited by a leader alternated with responses from the congregation) |
| ladainha {f} | :: litany (prolonged or tedious account) |
| Ladainha {prop} | :: Ladainha (municipality) |
| ládano {m} | :: labdanum (resin extracted from rockrose) |
| lã de aço {f} | :: steel wool (pads of fine strips of steel used as an abrasive) |
| ladear {v} | :: to flank (to be located by the side(s) of something) |
| ladeira {f} /lɐ.ˈðɐj.ɾɐ/ | :: slope (area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward) |
| lã de vidro {f} | :: glass wool (insulating material made from fibreglass) |
| ladinho {m} /laˈd͡ʒiɲu/ | :: diminutive of lado |
| ladinho {adj} [obsolete, of language] | :: pure (not influenced by cants and other languages) |
| ladino {adj} | :: wily; sly; cunning |
| ladino {m} | :: Ladin (Romance language spoken in northeastern Italy) |
| ladino {m} | :: Ladino (Romance language spoken by Sephardi Jews) |
| Ladislau {prop} {m} | :: given name |
| lado {m} /ˈla.ðu/ | :: side |
| lado a lado {adv} | :: side by side (beside or alongside one another) |
| lado a lado {adv} | :: side by side (with a common purpose) |
| lado de fora {m} | :: outside |
| Ládoga {prop} {m} /ˈla.do.ɡɐ/ | :: Ládoga (lake) |
| ladra {f} | :: female equivalent of ladrão |
| ladra {f} | :: female equivalent of ladro |
| ladram {m} /ˈla.dɾɐ̃w̃/ | :: obsolete spelling of ladrão |
| ladraõ {m} | :: obsolete spelling of ladrão |
| ladrão {m} /lɐ.ˈðɾɐ̃w̃/ | :: thief |
| ladrão {interj} [games, sports] | :: man on! |
| ladrãozeco {m} [dismissive] /ˌla.dɾɐ̃w̃.ˈzɛ.ku/ | :: diminutive of ladrão |
| ladrar {v} [of dogs] /lɐ.ˈðɾaɾ/ | :: to bark |
| ladrilhar {v} | :: to tile (to cover with tiles) |
| ladrilho {m} | :: tile |
| ladrilho {m} | :: brick |
| ladroens {m} | :: obsolete spelling of ladrões |
| ladroẽs {m} | :: obsolete spelling of ladrões |
| Laepus {prop} {m} | :: a god of the ancient Lusitanians |
| Lafaiete Coutinho {prop} | :: Lafaiete Coutinho (municipality) |
| lagalhé {mf} [derogatory] | :: worthless or useless individual |
| lagalhé {mf} [derogatory] | :: someone who is poor and wears shaggy, dirty clothes |
| Lagamar {prop} | :: Lagamar (municipality) |
| lagar {m} /lɐ.ˈɣaɾ/ | :: a vat in which olives and grapes are pressed |
| lagarta {f} /lɐ.ˈɣaɾ.tɐ/ | :: caterpillar |
| lagarta-do-cartucho {f} | :: armyworm (the larva of any of the Spodoptera genus of noctuid moth) |
| lagartear {vi} /la.ɡaʁ.ˈt͡ʃja(ʁ)/ | :: to bask (to sprawl and rest in a sunny spot) |
| lagartear {vi} | :: to crack in a zigzag pattern |
| lagartixa {f} /lɐ.ɣɐɾ.ˈti.ʃɐ/ | :: a small lizard |
| lagartixa {f} [chiefly Brazil] | :: any small, wall-crawling lizard species |
| lagartixa {f} [Brazil, pejorative] | :: an ugly skinny person, especially a woman |
| lagarto {m} /lɐ.ˈɣaɾ.tu/ | :: lizard (any reptile of the order Squamata other than snakes) |
| lagarto monitor {m} | :: alternative spelling of lagarto-monitor |
| lagarto-monitor {m} | :: monitor lizard (lizard of the genus Varanus) |
| Lages {prop} | :: Lages (municipality) |
| lago {m} /ˈla.ɣu/ | :: lake |
| lagoa {f} /lɐˈɣoɐ/ | :: a small lake |
| Lagoa {prop} {f} /lɐˈɣoɐ/ | :: Lagoa (city/and/municipality) |
| Lagoa {prop} {f} | :: Lagoa (city/and/municipality) |
| lagôa {f} | :: superseded spelling of lagoa |
| Lagoa Bonita do Sul {prop} | :: Lagoa Bonita do Sul (municipality) |
| Lagoa da Prata {prop} | :: Lagoa da Prata (municipality) |
| Lagoa das Sete Cidades {prop} {f} | :: Sete Cidades (a lake in the Azores) |
| Lagoa dos Patos {prop} | :: Lagoa dos Patos (municipality) |
| Lagoa dos Três Cantos {prop} | :: Lagoa dos Três Cantos (municipality) |
| Lagoa Dourada {prop} | :: Lagoa Dourada (municipality) |
| Lagoa Formosa {prop} | :: Lagoa Formosa (municipality) |
| Lagoa Grande {prop} | :: Lagoa Grande (municipality) |
| Lagoão {prop} | :: Lagoão (municipality) |
| Lagoa Real {prop} | :: Lagoa Real (municipality) |
| Lagoa Santa {prop} | :: Lagoa Santa (municipality) |
| Lagoa Vermelha {prop} | :: Lagoa Vermelha (municipality) |
| Lago de Genebra {prop} {m} | :: Lago de Genebra (lake) |
| Lagoinha {prop} | :: Lagoinha (municipality) |
| Lago Ness {prop} {m} | :: Lago Ness (lake) |
| lagopo {m} | :: ptarmigan (a small grouse, Lagopus) |
| lagópode {m} | :: ptarmigan (a small grouse, Lagopus) |
| Lagos {prop} /ˈlaɣuʃ/ | :: Lagos (major city/former capital) |
| Lagos {prop} | :: Lagos (city/and/municipality) |
| lagosta {f} | :: lobster |
| lagostim {m} | :: crayfish (freshwater crustacean resembling lobster) |
| Lago Superior {prop} {m} | :: Lago Superior (lake) |
| Lago Tanganica {prop} {m} | :: Lago Tanganica (lake) |
| lagrima {f} | :: obsolete spelling of lágrima |
| lágrima {f} /ˈla.ɣɾi.mɐ/ | :: tear, teardrop |
| lágrima de apache {f} | :: Apache tear (rounded nodule of obsidian) |
| lágrimas de crocodilo {fp} [idiomatic] | :: crocodile tears (display of tears that is forced or false) |
| lagryma {f} | :: obsolete spelling of lágrima |
| lágryma {f} | :: obsolete spelling of lágrima |
| laguna {f} | :: lagoon (shallow body of water separated from the sea by a bar) |
| Laguna {prop} | :: Laguna (municipality) |
| lahar {m} [geology] | :: lahar (volcanic mudflow) |
| Lahore {prop} {f} /la.ˈhɔ.ɾi/ | :: Lahore (city) |
| laia {f} | :: ilk, variety, race |
| laicidade {f} | :: secularism |
| laico {m} /ˈlaj.ku/ | :: layman (someone who is not an ordained cleric) |
| laico {adj} | :: lay (not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them) |
| laico {adj} | :: non-religious (having no relation with religion) |
| laico {adj} | :: secular (not bound by the vows of a monastic order) |
| lais de guia {m} [nautical] | :: bowline (type of knot) |
| laissez-faire {m} [economics] | :: laissez faire (a policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs) |
| laivo {m} | :: stain |
| laivo {m} [colloquial, in the plural] | :: smattering (superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject) |
| laja {f} | :: alternative form of laje |
| laje {f} | :: flagstone (rectangular paving or roofing stone) |
| laje {f} [Brazil] | :: a flat concrete roof |
| Laje {prop} | :: Laje (municipality) |
| lájea {f} | :: alternative form of laje |
| lajeado {adj} [construction] | :: paved with flagstones |
| lajeado {m} [construction] | :: a surface paved with flagstones |
| lajeado {m} [hydrology] | :: a rocky riverbed |
| Lajeado {prop} | :: Lajeado (municipality) |
| Lajeado do Bugre {prop} | :: Lajeado do Bugre (municipality) |
| Lajeado Grande {prop} | :: Lajeado Grande (municipality) |
| lajear {vt} [construction] | :: to pave with flagstones |
| Lajedão {prop} | :: Lajedão (municipality) |
| Lajedinho {prop} | :: Lajedinho (municipality) |
| Lajedo do Tabocal {prop} | :: Lajedo do Tabocal (municipality) |
| Laje do Muriaé {prop} | :: Laje do Muriaé (municipality) |
| lajem {f} | :: alternative form of laje |
| Lajes das Flores {prop} /ˈlaʒɨʒ ðu ˈpiku/ | :: Lajes das Flores (village/and/municipality) |
| Lajes do Pico {prop} /ˈlaʒɨʒ ðɐʃ ˈfloɾɨʃ/ | :: Lajes do Pico (village/and/municipality) |
| Lajinha {prop} | :: Lajinha (municipality) |
| Lakshmi {prop} {f} [Hindu god] | :: Lakshmi (Hindu goddess of wealth) |
| lama {f} /ˈlɐ.mɐ/ | :: mud (soil and water) |
| lama {m} | :: lama (master of Tibetan Buddhism) |
| lama {mf} | :: alternative form of lhama |
| lamaçal {m} | :: slough (muddy or marshy area) |
| lama de neve {f} | :: slush (half-melted snow) |
| Lamarão {prop} | :: Lamarão (municipality) |
| lamarckismo {m} [biology] | :: Lamarckism (theory that structural variations in creatures are produced by the direct influence of physical environments) |
| lambada {f} | :: lambada |
| Lambari {prop} | :: Lambari (municipality) |
| lambda {m} | :: lambda (name of the Greek letter Λ, λ) |
| lambe-botas {mf} | :: bootlicker (person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner) |
| lamber {v} | :: to lick |
| lambida {f} /lɐ̃.ˈbi.dɐ/ | :: an instance of licking |
| lambreta {f} | :: motor scooter (small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame) |
| lambuçar {v} | :: alternative form of lambuzar |
| lambugem {f} | :: gluttony |
| lambugem {f} | :: leftovers (of food on a plate) |
| lambuja {f} | :: handicap (advantage given to opponent) |
| lambujar {v} | :: to nibble, to eat sweets (on the sly) |
| lambujem {f} | :: alternative spelling of lambugem |
| lambuzar {vt} /lɐ̃ˈbu.za(ʁ)/ | :: to smear sticky or greasy food or substance |
| lamecha {adj} | :: alternative form of lamechas |
| lamecha {m} | :: alternative form of lamechas |
| lamechas {adj} | :: overly sentimental |
| Lamego {prop} {f} /lɐˈmeɣu/ | :: Lamego (city/and/municipality) |
| lameira {f} /laˈme(j)ɾɐ/ | :: synonym of lameiro: swamp, marsh, quagmire |
| lameiro {m} /laˈme(j)ɾu/ | :: swamp, mire |
| lamen {m} | :: alternative form of ramen |
| lámen {m} | :: instant noodles |
| lamentação {f} | :: lamentation (expression of grief, suffering, or sadness) |
| lamentar {v} | :: to lament |
| lamentável {adj} | :: lamentable; pitiful |
| lamento {m} /lɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/ | :: wailing, moaning, weeping |
| lamento {m} | :: lamentation, lament |
| lamento {m} | :: complaint |
| lâmia {f} [Greek mythology] | :: lamia (monster with the body of a woman and the body of a serpent below the waist) |
| Lamim {prop} | :: Lamim (municipality) |
| lâmina {f} /ˈlɐ.mi.nɐ/ | :: blade |
| lâmina {f} [mycology] | :: gill (any of the folds on the underside of a mushroom’s cap) |
| laminação {f} | :: lamination |
| lâmina de barbear {f} | :: razor blade (blade used for shaving) |
| laminar {v} | :: to laminate |
| lamiré {m} [music] | :: tuning fork |
| lamiré {m} [figurative] | :: starting signal |
| lâmpada {f} /ˈlɐ̃.pɐ.ðɐ/ | :: lightbulb |
| lâmpada {f} | :: light (source of illumination) |
| lâmpada {f} | :: spotlight (bright lamp) |
| lâmpada de Argand {f} | :: Argand lamp (a lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney) |
| lâmpada de mercúrio {f} | :: mercury-vapour lamp (lamp in which the arc discharge takes place in mercury vapour) |
| lâmpada de vapor de mercúrio {f} | :: mercury-vapour lamp (lamp in which the arc discharge takes place in mercury vapour) |
| lamparina {f} /lɐ̃.pɐ.ˈɾi.nɐ/ | :: small oil lamp |
| lampejar {vi} | :: to flash (to shine briefly) |
| lampejo {m} /lɐ̃.ˈpe.ʒu/ | :: flicker (an unsteady flash of light) |
| lampejo {m} | :: spark (small particle of glowing matter) |
| lampêjo {m} | :: obsolete spelling of lampejo |
| lampião {m} /lɐ̃.pi.ˈɐ̃w̃/ | :: street lamp |
| lampião {m} | :: lamp (hand-held) |
| lampião {m} | :: lantern |
| lampreia {f} | :: lamprey (eel-like fish with no jaw) |
| lamúria {f} /la.ˈmu.ɾja/ | :: lamentation, whine |
| lamúria {f} | :: monotonous, tiresome, droning speech, often to obtain something |
| lamuriar {v} | :: to whine; to bemoan; to lament |
| LAN {f} [networking] /ˈlɐ̃/ | :: LAN (local area network) |
| lança {f} /ˈlɐ̃.sɐ/ | :: lance, spear (long stick with a sharp tip) |
| lança {m} [Brazil, slang] | :: clipping of lança-perfume |
| lança-chamas {m} | :: flamethrower |
| lançadeira {f} | :: shuttle (part of a loom) |
| lançador {m} | :: launcher (someone or something that launches, throws) |
| lança-granadas {m} | :: grenade launcher (weapon that shoots grenades) |
| lança-granadas-foguete {m} | :: rocket propelled grenade (weapon) |
| lançamento {m} /ˌlɐ̃.sa.ˈmẽ.tu/ | :: launch; release (the act of launching: presenting something for the first time) |
| lançamento {m} | :: a product presented for the first time |
| lançamento {m} | :: launch; hurl (the act of launching: throwing something with great force) |
| lançamento {m} | :: [nautical] launch (the act of launching: releasing a watercraft into the water) |
| lançamento {m} | :: [astronautics] launch (the act of launching: flying a rocket out of the ground) |
| lançando {v} /lɐ̃ˈsɐ̃du/ | :: gerund of lançar |
| lança-perfume {m} | :: chloroethane when used as a recreational drug - a popular practice in Brazil |
| lançar {v} /lɐ̃.ˈsaɾ/ | :: to launch |
| lançar {v} | :: to throw or shoot (with force) |
| lançar luz {v} | :: See: pt lançar luz |
| lançar luz {v} [sobre, em, .idiomatic] | :: to shed light on (to cause to become clearer or better-known) |
| lançar mão {v} [de] | :: to embrace, to adopt |
| Lancastre {prop} {mp} | :: Lancaster (an English royal dynasty) |
| Lancastre {prop} {mp} | :: surname |
| lance {m} | :: throw (act of throwing something) |
| lance {m} | :: bid (offer at an auction) |
| lance {m} [sports] | :: a series of actions carried out during a game |
| lance {m} [colloquial] | :: thing (only used for non-physical things) |
| lance {m} | :: flight (series of stairs between landings) |
| lancear {v} | :: to spear (to pierce with a spear) |
| lanceiro {m} [military unit] | :: spearman (soldier armed with a spear) |
| lanceta {f} | :: lancet (pointed, two-edged surgical instrument) |
| lancha {f} [watercraft] /ˈlɐ̃.ʃɐ/ | :: any small and fast boat |
| lancha {f} [watercraft] | :: motorboat |
| lanchando {v} | :: gerund of lanchar |
| lanchar {v} /lɐ̃ˈʃa(ɹ)/ | :: to have a snack (food eaten between meals) |
| lanche {m} /ˈlɐ̃.ʃɨ/ | :: afternoon tea, high tea |
| lanche {m} | :: snack |
| lancheira {f} | :: lunchbox (container for transporting meals) |
| lanchonete {f} [Brazil] | :: a small eatery for quick snacks |
| lancil {m} | :: curb, kerb; kerbstone |
| lancinante {adj} | :: piercing [noise] |
| lande {f} [Portugal] /ˈlɐ̃.ðɨ/ | :: a cork oak acorn |
| lande {f} | :: alternative form of landa |
| landegrave {m} [rare, historical] | :: landgrave (nobiliary title ranking used in the Holy Roman Empire) |
| -lândia {suffix} | :: -land (forms the names of regions and cities) |
| Landry {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| langbeinita {f} [mineral] | :: langbeinite |
| langobardo {m} | :: Lombard (member of a Germanic people) |
| languidamente {adv} | :: languidly |
| lânguido {adj} /ˈlɐ̃.ɡi.du/ | :: languid; listless (lacking enthusiasm, energy or strength) |
| lanhar {v} | :: to open slashes in [something] by hitting it with a cutting tool, such as for curing it |
| lanhar {v} [by extension] | :: to whip |
| lan house {f} [Brazil] /ˌlɐ̃ ˈhawz/ | :: an establishment providing access to computers, usually with Internet connection and videogames |
| Lan house {f} | :: alternative spelling of lan house |
| LAN house {f} | :: alternative spelling of lan house |
| lanolina {f} | :: lanolin (greasy yellow substance secreted by woolly animals) |
| lanoso {adj} | :: woolly (made of wool) |
| lanoso {adj} | :: woolly (having much wool) |
| lanoso {adj} | :: woolly (similar to wool in appearance or texture) |
| lansquené {m} | :: alternative form of lansquenete |
| lansquenete {m} [military unit, historical] | :: lansquenet (one of a class of German mercenary of the 16th and 17th centuries) |
| lantâneo {m} | :: lanthanide |
| lantanídeo {m} | :: lanthanide |
| lantanídio {m} [chemistry] | :: lanthanide |
| lantânio {m} /lɐ̃.ˈtɐ.ni.o/ | :: lanthanum (metallic element) |
| lantejoila {f} | :: alternative form of lantejoula |
| lantejoula {f} | :: sequin (sparkling spangle used for decoration) |
| lanterna {f} /lɐ̃.ˈtɛɾ.nɐ/ | :: flashlight (battery-powered hand-held lightsource) |
| lanterna {f} | :: lantern (case of transparent material made to protect a flame, or light) |
| lanterna {f} | :: headlight (light in front of a vehicle) |
| lanterna {f} | :: lamp of a lighthouse |
| lanterna {f} [architecture] | :: roof lantern (type of cupola) |
| lanterna {f} [Brazil, slang] | :: the last place in a competition |
| lanterna {mf} [Brazil, slang] | :: the contestant in the last place of a competition |
| lanterna de Aristóteles {f} [zoology] | :: Aristotle's lantern (jaws of sea urchins) |
| lanternim {m} | :: diminutive of lanterna |
| lanternim {m} | :: louver (turret for ventilation and light on mediaeval buildings) |
| lanterninha {mf} [Brazil] /ˌlɐ̃.tɛɾ.ˈni.ɲɐ/ | :: usher (a person who shows people to their seats, especially in cinemas or theatres) |
| lanterninha {f} | :: diminutive of lanterna |
| laociano {adj} | :: alternative form of laosiano |
| laociano {m} | :: alternative form of laosiano |
| Laocoonte {prop} {m} [Greek mythology] | :: Laocoön (a Trojan priest) |
| Laocoonte {prop} {m} [Greek mythology] | :: Laocoön (one of the argonauts) |
| Laore {prop} {f} | :: rare spelling of Lahore |
| Laos {prop} {m} /ˈlaws/ | :: Laos (country) |
| laosiana {f} | :: female equivalent of laosiano |
| laosiano {adj} | :: Lao; Laotian (of, from or pertaining to Laos and its people) |
| laosiano {adj} | :: Lao; Laotian (in or relating to the Laotian language) |
| laosiano {m} | :: Lao; Laotian (person from Laos) |
| laosiano {m} | :: Lao; Laotian (national language of Laos) |
| Lao Zi {prop} {m} | :: Laozi (influential Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism) |
| lapa {f} /ˈla.pɐ/ | :: grotto; cave, especially one used as shelter |
| lapa {f} | :: limpet (a small mollusc) |
| lapada {f} [Beira, Trás-os-Montes] | :: a strike with a stone |
| lapão {m} | :: Saami; Sami; Lapp (member of nomadic people of Lapland) |
| lapão {m} [uncountable] | :: Saami; Sami; Lapp (group of Finno-Ugric languages spoken by the Saami) |
| lapão {adj} | :: of or relating to the Saami people |
| Lapão {prop} | :: Lapão (municipality) |
| laparoscópico {adj} | :: laparoscopic (relating to laparoscopy) |
| La Paz {prop} {f} | :: La Paz (capital city) |
| lapela {f} | :: lapel (each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on a suit) |
| lã penteada {f} | :: worsted (fine smooth wool fabric) |
| lápida {f} | :: alternative form of lápide |
| lapidação {f} | :: cut (of a gemstone) |
| lapidação {f} | :: lapidation |
| lapidando {v} | :: gerund of lapidar |
| lapidar {v} /lɐ.piˈðaɾ/ | :: to cut (a gemstone) |
| lapidar {v} | :: to stone, lapidate |
| lápide {f} /ˈla.pi.d͡ʒi/ | :: tombstone (stone on grave) |
| lápis {m} /ˈla.piʃ/ | :: pencil |
| lápis azul {m} | :: See: pt lápis azul |
| lápis azul {m} [Portugal, idiomatic, figurative] | :: censorship |
| lapiseira {f} | :: mechanical pencil (pencil that uses a mechanism to dispense refillable lead) |
| lapiseira {f} | :: pencil case |
| lápis estríptico {m} [medicine] | :: styptic pencil (short medicated stick used to stop bleeding) |
| lápis hemostático {m} [medicine] | :: styptic pencil (short medicated stick used to stop bleeding) |
| lápis-lazúli {m} [mineral] /ˌlapiʒlɐˈzuli/ | :: lapis lazuli (precious blue stone) |
| Lapointe {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| Lapónia {prop} {f} [European orthography] | :: Lapónia (traditional region) |
| Lapônia {prop} {f} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of Lapónia |
| lapónio {m} [European orthography] | :: Saami; Sami; Lapp (member of nomadic people of Lapland) |
| lapónio {m} [European orthography, uncountable] | :: Saami; Sami; Lapp (group of Finno-Ugric languages spoken by the Saami) |
| lapónio {adj} [European orthography] | :: Saami; Sami; Lapp (of or relating to the Saami people) |
| lapônio {m} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of lapónio |
| lapônio {adj} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of lapónio |
| lapso {m} | :: lapse (a temporary failure; a slip) |
| laptop {m} [computing] /ˌlɛp.ˈtɔp/ | :: laptop computer (class of portable computers) |
| laque {num} [India] | :: lakh (one hundred thousand) |
| laquê {m} /la.ˈke/ | :: hairspray |
| Láquesis {prop} {f} [Greek god] | :: Lachesis (one of the Fates) |
| lar {m} [affectionate] /laɾ/ | :: home (place or building where one dwells) |
| Lara {prop} {f} /ˈla.ɾɐ/ | :: given name |
| laracha {f} [colloquial] | :: joke |
| laranja {adj} /lɐˈɾɐ̃ʒɐ/ | :: orange (having orange as its color) |
| laranja {f} | :: orange (fruit) |
| laranja {f} | :: orange (color) |
| laranja {mf} [slang, Brazil] | :: a stooge (one who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit, especially in political schemes), a dupe |
| laranja amarga {f} | :: bitter orange (fruit of the bitter orange tree) |
| laranja amarga {f} | :: See: pt laranja amarga |
| laranja azeda {f} | :: bitter orange (fruit of the bitter orange tree) |
| laranja azeda {f} | :: See: pt laranja amarga |
| laranja-cravo {f} [regional, Northeast Brazil] | :: mandarin orange |
| laranjada {f} | :: orangeade (orange juice) |
| laranja-da-china {f} | :: blood orange (Citrus sinensis, a type of orange) |
| laranja da China {f} | :: alternative spelling of laranja-da-china |
| laranja-da-terra {f} | :: bitter orange (fruit of the bitter orange tree) |
| Laranjal {prop} | :: Laranjal (municipality) |
| Laranjal Paulista {prop} | :: Laranjal Paulista (municipality) |
| laranja-mimosa {f} [regional, Center-West and Southeast Brazil] | :: mandarin orange |
| laranjeira {f} /ˌla.ɾɐ̃.ˈʒe(j).ɾa/ | :: orange tree |
| laranjeira-amarga {f} | :: bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium, a citrus tree) |
| laranjeira-azeda {f} | :: bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium, a citrus tree) |
| laranjeira-da-terra {f} | :: bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium, a citrus tree) |
| lar, doce lar {phrase} | :: home sweet home (an exhortation of one’s home) |
| lareira {f} /lɐˈɾɐjɾɐ/ | :: fireplace |
| largada {f} | :: start of a race |
| largadinha {f} [volleyball] | :: off-speed hit |
| largamente {adv} /laɾ.ɣɐ.ˈmẽ.tɨ/ | :: widely (by a large distance) |
| largamente {adv} | :: widely (to a great degree) |
| largando {v} | :: gerund of largar |
| largar {vt} /lɐɾ.ˈɣaɾ/ | :: to drop, shed |
| largar {vt} | :: to abandon, leave |
| largar {vt} [colloquial] | :: to give up (stop or quit an activity etc.) |
| largar {vi} | :: to leave |
| largar de mão {v} [idiomatic] | :: To throw up one's hands |
| largar mão {v} [idiomatic] | :: to give up; to quit |
| largo {m} /ˈlaɾ.ɡu/ | :: square (open space in a town) |
| largo {m} [nautical] | :: high seas (parts of the ocean surface that are far from shore) |
| largo {adj} | :: wide; broad (having a large width) |
| largo {adj} | :: ample; spacious |
| largo {adj} [of clothes] | :: loose (not fitting tightly) |
| largo {m} [music] | :: largo (a very slow tempo) |
| largo {m} [music] | :: largo (a musical piece or movement in such a tempo) |
| largueza {f} | :: largess; generosity |
| largura {f} /lɐɾ.ˈɣu.ɾɐ/ | :: width (measurement of something from side to side) |
| largura de banda {f} | :: bandwidth (width of a frequency band) |
| larica {f} [colloquial] /lɐˈɾi.kɐ/ | :: munchies (craving for food as a result of use of cannabis) |
| larica {f} [botany] | :: darnel |
| larice {m} | :: alternative form of lariço |
| lariço {m} | :: larch (Larix) |
| laringal {adj} [phonetics] | :: laryngeal (uttered by using the larynx) |
| laringal {f} [phonetics] | :: laryngeal (laryngeal sound) |
| laringe {f} | :: larynx |
| laringeal {adj} | :: laryngeal (relating to the larynx) |
| laringeal {f} [Indo-European linguistics] | :: laryngeal (certain reconstructed Proto-Indo-European phonemes) |
| laríngeo {adj} | :: laryngeal (relating to the larynx) |
| laringite {f} /ˌla.ɾĩ.ˈʒi.te/ | :: laryngitis (inflammation of the larynx) |
| laringologia {f} | :: laryngology (branch of physiology that deals with the larynx) |
| laringológico {adj} [medicine] | :: laryngological (of or pertaining to laryngology) |
| laringologista {mf} | :: laryngologist (a person who studies or specialises in laryngology) |
| La Rioja {prop} {f} | :: La Rioja (autonomous community/and/province) |
| Larissa {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| Larissa {prop} {f} | :: Larissa (city/regional capital) |
| larva {f} | :: larva (early growth stage of some insects and amphibians) |
| laryngite {f} | :: obsolete spelling of laringite |
| las {pron} /lɐʃ/ | :: alternative form of a |
| lasanha {f} | :: lasagna |
| lasca {f} /ˈlas.kɐ/ | :: chip; splinter (small piece removed from the surface of something) |
| lascando {v} | :: gerund of lascar |
| lascar {v} | :: to chip |
| lascívia {f} | :: lust, lasciviousness |
| lascivo {adj} | :: lewd, lascivious |
| lá se foi {phrase} | :: there goes (used to comment on the permanent loss of something) |
| laser {m} | :: laser (device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light) |
| lá se vai {phrase} | :: there goes (used to comment on the permanent loss of something) |
| lasqueira {interj} | :: damn! (expresses anger, irritation or disappointment) |
| Lassa {prop} {f} | :: Lassa (city/regional capital) |
| Lassance {prop} | :: Lassance (municipality) |
| lassar {v} /la.ˈsa(ɹ)/ | :: to loosen (to make something less tight) |
| lassi {m} | :: lassi (beverage made with yoghurt) |
| lassidão {f} | :: lassitude, tiredness, fatigue |
| lasso {adj} /ˈla.su/ | :: weary; very tired; exhausted |
| lasso {adj} [of a person] | :: degenerate; dissolute (unrestrained by morality) |
| lasso {adj} | :: lax; loose (not tight) |
| lasso {adj} | :: worn out (damaged and useless due to hard or continued use) |
| lastar {v} [obsolete] | :: to pay a debt |
| lastar {v} [obsolete] | :: to be the victim of a harmful action |
| lastimando {v} | :: gerund of lastimar |
| lastimar {v} | :: to regret |
| lastimar {v} | :: to mourn |
| lastimar {v} | :: to injure |
| lastimável {adj} | :: regrettable |
| lastimável {adj} | :: lamentable |
| lastro {m} [nautical] | :: ballast |
| lastro {m} | :: coverage |
| Las Vegas {prop} {f} /laz ˈvɛ.ɡɐs/ | :: Las Vegas (city) |
| lata {f} /ˈlatɐ/ | :: can, tin [UK, Australia] |
| lata {f} | :: tin, tin-plate (material) |
| lata {f} [colloquial] | :: cheek, nerve |
| lata de sardinha {f} [idiom] | :: An extremely crowded, tight place or vehicle (a bus, a train, etc.), to the extent that the people are unable to move |
| latagão {m} | :: A tall, vigorous man |
| Latakia {prop} {f} | :: Latakia (city) |
| latão {m} /lɐ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/ | :: augmentative of lata |
| latão {m} | :: brass (alloy of copper and zinc) |
| Lataquia {prop} {f} | :: alternative spelling of Latakia |
| Latáquia {prop} {f} | :: alternative spelling of Latakia |
| lataria {f} | :: bodywork |
| lata-velha {f} [slang] | :: hooptie (old, worn-out car) |
| látego {m} | :: whip, especially one consisting of a rope and a thong |
| latejamento {m} | :: throb (strong beat or palpitation) |
| latejar {vi} | :: to throb (to pound or beat rapidly or violently) |
| latejo {m} | :: throb (strong beat or palpitation) |
| latêjo {m} | :: obsolete spelling of latejo |
| latência {f} | :: latency; delay (time between the start of a process and its conclusion) |
| latência {f} [electronics] | :: latency (delay due to the transmission and processing of signals) |
| latência {f} [medicine] | :: latency (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism) |
| latente {adj} | :: latent (existing or present but concealed or inactive) |
| lateral {adj} | :: lateral (of, pertaining to or located in the side) |
| lateral {adj} | :: of lesser importance |
| lateral {f} [sports] | :: sideline (line defining the side boundary of a playing field) |
| lateral {f} [sports] | :: throw-in (set-piece where the ball is thrown back into play) |
| lateral {f} [phonetics] | :: lateral (sound in which the airstream proceeds along the sides of the tongue) |
| lateral {mf} [sports] | :: winger (offensive player who plays on either side of the centre) |
| lateralmente {adv} | :: laterally |
| látex {m} | :: latex (milky sap used to make rubber) |
| laticínio {m} | :: dairy product |
| lático {adj} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of láctico |
| latido {m} | :: bark (dog’s short, explosive utterance) |
| latifundiário {adj} | :: latifundial (related to a latifundium) |
| latifundiário {m} | :: owner of a latifundium |
| latifundio {m} | :: large estate, large land property |
| latim {m} [uncountable] /lɐ.ˈtĩ/ | :: Latin (language of the ancient Romans) |
| latim {m} | :: any of the several phases of Latin (such as Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin and Old Latin) |
| latim clássico {m} | :: Classical Latin (Latin language as spoken and written formally by the Ancient Romans) |
| latim eclesiástico {m} | :: Ecclesiastical Latin (the Latin language as used by the church) |
| latim medieval {m} | :: Medieval Latin (formal Latin used during the Middle Ages) |
| latim vulgar {m} | :: Vulgar Latin |
| latina {f} | :: feminine noun of latino |
| latinar {vi} | :: to speak Latin, to understand Latin |
| latinar {vt} | :: to write in Latin |
| latinar {vt} | :: to translate from Latin |
| latinha {f} | :: diminutive of lata |
| latinização {f} [historical] | :: Latinization (adoption of Roman culture) |
| latinização {f} [linguistics] | :: Latinization (adoption of the Latin language) |
| latinizar {vt} | :: to romanize, to Latinize, to transliterate into Latin script |
| latinizar {vt} | :: to Latinize, to translate into Latin language |
| latino {adj} [linguistics] /laˈt͡ʃi.nu/ | :: Latin (of or relating to the Latin language) |
| latino {adj} [linguistics] | :: Romance (being one of the languages that descend from Latin) |
| latino {adj} | :: Latin; Romance (relating to Romance-speaking countries and cultures) |
| latino {adj} [historical] | :: Latin; Latian (of, from or relating to Latium) |
| latino {adj} | :: Latino (of, from or relating to Latin America) |
| latino {m} | :: Latino; Latin-American (someone from Latin America) |
| latino {m} [historical] | :: Latin; Latian (someone from Latium) |
| latino {m} [rare] | :: synonym of latim |
| latino {m} [obsolete] | :: synonym of latinista |
| latino-americano {adj} | :: Latin American (of/from Latin America) |
| latino-americano {m} | :: Latin American (person from Latin America) |
| latino-falisco {m} | :: Latino-Faliscan (branch of the Italic language family) |
| latir {v} [of dogs] | :: to bark |
| latir {v} [by extension] | :: to shout |
| latir {v} [rare] | :: to beat, throb |
| latitude {f} [geography, astronomy] | :: latitude (angular distance north or south from the equator) |
| latitude {f} [geography] | :: latitude (imaginary line parallel to the equator) |
| latitudinário {adj} | :: latitudinarian (tolerant, especially of other people’s religious views) |
| latitudinário {m} | :: latitudinarian (a person who is tolerant) |
| lato {adj} /ˈla.tu/ | :: broad, wide |
| latoeiro {m} | :: tinsmith (person who makes or repairs things with tin or other cheap metals) |
| Latona {prop} {f} [Greek mythology] | :: Leto (mother of Apollo) |
| -latria {suffix} | :: -latry (worship or obsession with) |
| latrina {f} | :: latrine (simple toilet facility) |
| latrocida {mf} | :: a robber who intimidates the victim with a weapon |
| latrocínio {m} [legal] | :: hold-up; armed robbery (robbery where the thief intimidates the victim with a weapon) |
| latrocínio {m} [legal] | :: robbery followed by the murder of the victim |
| latrotoxina {f} | :: latrotoxin |
| Látvia {prop} {f} | :: Látvia (country) |
| laudação {f} /ˌlaw.da.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ | :: laudation; praise (favourable representation) |
| láudano {m} | :: laudanum (tincture of opium) |
| Laura {prop} {f} /ˈlaw.ɾɐ/ | :: given name |
| laurêncio {m} /law.ˈɾẽ.si.o/ | :: lawrencium (chemical element) |
| laurêncio {m} | :: Laurente (someone from the ancient Roman city of Laurentum) |
| laurêncio {adj} | :: of or relating to Laurentum, an ancient Roman city |
| Laurêncio {prop} {m} /law.ˈɾẽ.sju/ | :: given name |
| Laurentino {prop} | :: Laurentino (municipality) |
| Laurier {prop} {mf} | :: Laurier (surname) |
| laurita {f} [mineral] | :: laurite |
| Lauro de Freitas {prop} | :: Lauro de Freitas (municipality) |
| Lauro Müller {prop} | :: Lauro Müller (municipality) |
| lava {f} /ˈla.vɐ/ | :: lava (melted rock) |
| lavabo {m} /la.ˈva.bu/ | :: lavabo (washbasin, especially one used for ceremonious washing) |
| lavabo {m} | :: lavatory (room containing a toilet) |
| lavação {f} | :: the act of washing |
| lavada {f} [sports, video games, colloquial] | :: a win by a big difference |
| lavadeira {f} | :: laundress, washerwoman |
| lavadeira {f} | :: dragonfly |
| lavadeiro {m} | :: washer (person who washes for a living) |
| lavador {m} | :: washer (someone or something that washes) |
| lavadura {f} | :: washing; wash (the act of washing) |
| lava encordoada {f} | :: pahoehoe (form of lava flow) |
| lavagante {m} | :: European lobster (Homarus gammarus) |
| lavagem {f} /lɐvaʒɐ̃j̃/ | :: washing, rinsing |
| lavagem {f} | :: slops, dishwater |
| lavagem a seco {f} | :: dry cleaning (process of cleaning using a chemical solvent other than water) |
| lavagem cerebral {f} | :: brainwash (mental pressure to change someone’s memory, belief or ideas) |
| lavagem de dinheiro {f} | :: money laundering (act of obscuring the origin of money that has been obtained illegally) |
| lava-jato {m} | :: car wash (place at which a car is washed, often mechanically) |
| lavalouça {f} | :: dishwasher (machine that washes dishes) |
| lavamento {m} | :: washing; wash (the act of washing) |
| lavanda {f} /lɐ.ˈvɐ̃.dɐ/ | :: lavender (plant and flower) |
| lavanda {f} | :: lavender (color) |
| lavandaria {f} | :: launderette, laundromat |
| lavandeira {f} | :: laundrywoman |
| lavandeira {f} | :: wagtail (various small passerine birds) |
| lavandeira {f} | :: Leonurus sibiricus, plant from Lamiaceae |
| lavandeira {f} | :: Black-and-white monjita (Xolmis dominicanus) or White-rumped monjita (Xolmis velatus), South and Central American birds from Tyrannidae |
| lavanderia {f} | :: alternative form of lavandaria |
| lavandisca {f} | :: wagtail (various small passerine birds) |
| lavar {v} /lɐˈvaɾ/ | :: to wash (to clean with water) |
| lavatório {m} | :: washbasin |
| lavável {adj} | :: washable |
| laverca {f} | :: skylark (Alauda arvensis, a passerine) |
| Lavínia {prop} {f} | :: Lavínia (municipality) |
| Lavínia {prop} {f} [Roman mythology] | :: Lavinia (last wife of Aeneas) |
| Lavínia {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| lavoura {f} | :: farming, agriculture |
| lavoura {f} | :: tillage |
| lavoura {f} | :: mining |
| lavra {f} /ˈla.vɾa/ | :: authorship |
| lavra {f} [uncountable] | :: cultivation; agriculture |
| lavra {f} | :: act of tilling |
| lavra {f} [Brazil] | :: mine |
| lavra {f} [Brazil, uncountable] | :: mining |
| lavrado {v} | :: past participle of lavrar |
| lavrado {adj} | :: ploughed |
| lavrado {adj} | :: wrought |
| lavrador {m} | :: farmer |
| lavrador {m} | :: husbandman |
| lavrador {m} | :: ploughman |
| lavrando {v} | :: gerund of lavrar |
| lavrar {v} /lɐˈvɾaɾ/ | :: to plough; to cultivate |
| lavrar {v} | :: to transpose |
| Lavras {prop} | :: Lavras (municipality) |
| Lavras do Sul {prop} | :: Lavras do Sul (municipality) |
| Lavrinhas {prop} | :: Lavrinhas (municipality) |
| lawrêncio {m} | :: alternative form of laurêncio |
| laxante {adj} | :: laxative (causing movement of the bowels) |
| laxante {m} | :: laxative (substance with a laxative effect) |
| Laxmi {prop} {f} | :: alternative form of Lakshmi |
| layout {m} [publishing, Internet] /lej.ˈawt͡ʃ/ | :: layout (physical arrangement of content on a page) |
| lazarento {m} | :: leper (someone who suffers from leprosy) |
| lazarento {m} [Brazil, offensive] | :: cunt (unpleasant or objectionable person) |
| lazarento {adj} | :: leprous (who suffers from leprosy) |
| lazarento {adj} | :: unpleasant; objectionable |
| Lazarescu {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| lazareto {m} | :: leprosarium (institution or place to quarantine and treat leprous people) |
| Lázaro {prop} {m} [biblical character] /ˈla.za.ɾu/ | :: Lazarus (man brought back to life by Jesus) |
| Lázaro {prop} {m} | :: given name |
| lazer {m} /lɐ.ˈzeɾ/ | :: leisure (time free from engagement) |
| LCD {m} [electronics, computing] | :: LCD (liquid crystal display) |
| Lda. {f} [economics] | :: abbreviation of Limitada, limited liability company |
| leal {adj} | :: adhering to the rules of propriety, fair, honest, loyal, true |
| lealdade {f} /ljaɫ.ˈda.ðɨ/ | :: loyalty |
| lealmente {adv} | :: loyally |
| Leandro Ferreira {prop} | :: Leandro Ferreira (municipality) |
| Leaõ {prop} {m} | :: obsolete spelling of Leão |
| leão {m} /ˈljɐ̃w̃/ | :: lion (mammal) |
| leão {m} [heraldiccharge] | :: lion |
| Leão {prop} {m} | :: Leão (province/and/former kingdom) |
| Leão {prop} {f} | :: Leão (city/provincial capital) |
| Leão {prop} {m} | :: nickname of the Brazilian internal revenue service |
| Leão {prop} {m} | :: historical given name |
| Leão {prop} {m} [astronomy] | :: Leo (a constellation) |
| Leão {prop} {m} [astrology] | :: Leo (a zodiac sign) |
| leão americano {m} | :: American lion (Panthera leo, an extinct lion endemic to the Americas) |
| leão americano {m} | :: American lion; cougar; mountain lion |
| leão americano {m} | :: See: pt leão americano |
| leão asiático {m} | :: Asian lion |
| leão-baio {m} | :: cougar (Puma concolor) |
| leão-da-montanha {m} | :: cougar (Puma concolor) |
| Leão da Neméia {prop} {m} | :: obsolete spelling of Leão de Nemeia |
| leão-de-chácara {m} [Brazil] | :: bouncer (member of the security personnel of an entertainment venue) |
| Leão de Nemeia {prop} {m} [Greek mythology] | :: Nemean Lion (invulnerable lion slain by Hercules) |
| leão-do-atlas {m} | :: Barbary lion |
| leão do Cabo {m} | :: Cape lion (Panthera leo melanochaita, an extinct lion subspecies) |
| leão-marinho {m} | :: sea lion (any marine mammal of the Otariidae family) |
| leãozinho {m} | :: diminutive of leão |
| Lebedeff {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| Lebedev {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| Lebensraum {prop} {m} [historical] | :: Lebensraum (territories regarded as vital for the flourishing of the German race) |
| Leblanc {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| Lebon Régis {prop} | :: Lebon Régis (municipality) |
| lẽbrado {v} [obsolete] | :: abbreviation of lembrado |
| lebrão {m} | :: hare |
| lebre {f} /ˈlɛ.βɾɨ/ | :: hare, rabbit |
| lebre ártica {f} | :: arctic hare (Lepus arcticus, a hare of the arctic regions of North America) |
| lebrel irlandês {m} | :: Irish wolfhound |
| lebroto {m} | :: leveret (young hare) |
| Lecco {prop} {f} | :: Lecco (town/and/province) |
| lecionar {vti} /le.sjo.ˈna(ɾ)/ | :: to give lessons, teach, to instruct |
| lecionar {v} | :: to exercise the function of a teacher or professor |
| lecionário {m} | :: lectionary |
| led {m} | :: alternative spelling of LED |
| LED {m} /ˈlɛd͡ʒ/ | :: LED (light-emitting diode) |
| lediça {f} /lɨ.ˈði.sɐ/ | :: alternative form of ledice |
| Lediça {prop} {f} [rare] | :: given name |
| ledice {f} /lɨ.ˈði.sɨ/ | :: Great joy; pleasure |
| ledo {adj} /ˈle.ðu/ | :: happy, joyful |
| lédo {adj} | :: obsolete form of ledo |
| Leeds {prop} {f} | :: Leeds (large city/and/metropolitan borough) |
| legação {f} | :: legacy, bequest |
| legação {f} | :: legation |
| legado {m} | :: legacy |
| legado {m} | :: ambassador |
| legado {m} [Roman Catholicism] | :: nuncio (diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church) |
| legal {adj} /lɨ.ˈɣaɫ/ | :: legal |
| legal {adj} [Brazil, familiar] | :: cool, nice, good |
| legalês {m} | :: legalese (wording that resembles how a lawyer writes) |
| legalidade {f} | :: legalness |
| legalização {f} | :: legalization |
| legalizando {v} | :: gerund of legalizar |
| legalizar {v} | :: to legalize |
| legalmente {adv} | :: legally |
| legando {v} | :: gerund of legar |
| legar {v} | :: to bequeath, leave, will (make a bequest) |
| legar {v} | :: to legate |
| legatário {m} | :: legatee |
| legenda {f} [cinema, television, often in plural] /leˈʒẽ.da/ | :: subtitle(s) (textual versions of film dialogue) |
| legenda {f} | :: caption (title or brief explanation attached to an illustration or cartoon) |
| legenda {f} | :: key, legend (textual description of symbols and/or colour codes on a map or graph) |
| legendado {adj} [of video] | :: subtitled (containing subtitles) |
| legendar {v} | :: to subtitle (to add subtitles to a film or broadcast) |
| legendário {adj} | :: legendary (relating to legends and myths) |
| legendário {adj} | :: legendary; exceptional; (having unimaginable greatness) |
| legião {f} [historical, military, Ancient Rome] /ˌle.ʒi.ˈɐ̃w̃/ | :: legion (major unit or division of the Roman army) |
| legião {f} [military] | :: legion (large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat) |
| legião {f} | :: legion (large number of people) |
| legionário {m} [military unit, Ancient Rome] /ˌle.ʒi.o.ˈna.ɾi.u/ | :: legionary (soldier in a Roman legion) |
| legionário {m} [military unit] | :: legionnaire (soldier in the French Foreign Legion) |
| legionário {adj} [military] | :: legionary (relating to a legion) |
| legislação {f} [legal] /lɨ.ʒiʒ.lɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ | :: legislation; law |
| legislador {m} | :: legislator (who creates or enacts laws) |
| legislar {v} /ˌlɨ.ʒiʒ.ˈlaɾ/ | :: to legislate |
| legislativo {adj} /lɨ.ʒiʒ.lɐ.ˈti.vu/ | :: legislative |
| legislativo {m} [politics] | :: short for poder legislativo |
| legislatura {f} | :: legislature (governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws) |
| legista {adj} | :: skilled in law |
| legista {mf} | :: clipping of médico-legista |
| legista {mf} | :: clipping of médica-legista |
| legitimação {f} | :: legitimacy |
| legitimamente {adv} | :: legitimately (in a legitimate manner) |
| legitimar {vt} | :: to legitimize (make legitimate) |
| legitimidade {f} | :: legitimacy |
| legítimo {adj} /lɨ.ˈʒi.ti.mu/ | :: legitimate [all senses] |
| legítimo {adj} | :: rightful |
| legítimo {adj} | :: legal, lawful |
| legível {adj} | :: readable; legible |
| legivelmente {adv} | :: legibly (in a legible manner) |
| lego {m} /ˈlɛ.ɡu/ | :: Lego (small, coloured plastic toy bricks made by the Lego Company) |
| lego {m} [trademark generalisation] | :: any similar brick toy |
| lego {m} [figurative] | :: things that can be assembled together to form a larger thing |
| Lego {m} | :: alternative spelling of lego |
| legoa {f} | :: obsolete spelling of légua |
| légoa {f} | :: obsolete spelling of légua |
| Legrand {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| legua {f} | :: obsolete spelling of légua |
| légua {f} | :: league (the distance a person can walk in an hour, used as a unit of measurement) |
| legume {m} | :: legume (fruits of leguminous plants) |
| legume {m} [by extension] | :: any vegetable |
| leguminosa {f} | :: legume (member of Leguminosae family, such as peas or beans) |
| leguminoso {adj} | :: leguminous (relating or belonging to the Leguminosae family) |
| lei {f} /lɐj/ | :: law |
| Leia {prop} {f} | :: alternative form of Lia |
| Léia {prop} {f} | :: obsolete spelling of Leia |
| leia-se {v} | :: See: pt leia se |
| leia-se {v} | :: to be understood as |
| Lei Áurea {prop} {f} | :: The law that abolished slavery in Brazil in 1888 |
| leiaute {m} | :: alternative spelling of layout |
| Lei de Gérson {prop} {f} [Brazil] | :: The attitude of taking advantage of others; a disregard for ethics |
| Lei de Murphy {prop} {f} | :: Murphy’s law (adage which states that if anything can go wrong it will) |
| Leiden {prop} {f} | :: Leiden (city) |
| Lei dos Sexagenários {prop} {f} | :: The law that freed slaves when they reached the age of 60 in Brazil, in 1885 |
| Lei do Ventre Livre {prop} {f} | :: The law that freed children born of slaves in Brazil in 1871 |
| Lei Eusébio de Queirós {prop} {f} | :: The law that abolished international slave trade in Brazil in 1850 |
| leigo {m} /ˈlej.ɡu/ | :: layman (someone who is not an ordained cleric) |
| leigo {m} | :: layman (someone who is not a professional in a given field) |
| leigo {adj} | :: lay (not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them) |
| leigo {adj} | :: non-religious (having no relation with religion) |
| Leila {prop} {f} /ˈlej.lɐ/ | :: given name |
| leilam {f} | :: obsolete spelling of leilão |
| leilaõ {f} | :: obsolete spelling of leilão |
| leilão {f} /lɐj.ˈlɐ̃w̃/ | :: auction |
| leiloando {v} | :: gerund of leiloar |
| leiloar {v} | :: to auction |
| leiloeiro {m} | :: auctioneer (one who conducts an auction) |
| lei marcial {f} | :: martial law (rules by military authorities in a time of crisis) |
| Lei Maria da Penha {prop} {f} | :: Brazil's Federal Law 11340, sanctioned in 2006, with the intent of reducing domestic violence |
| Leipzig {prop} {f} | :: Leipzig (city) |
| leira {f} /ˈlɐj.ɾɐ/ | :: furrow |
| leira {f} | :: a strip of cultivated land |
| Leiria {prop} {f} | :: Leiria (district) |
| Leiria {prop} {f} | :: Leiria (city/and/municipality) |
| Lei Rouanet {prop} {f} | :: Brazil's Federal Law 8313 of 23 December 1991, whose role is providing monetary funds for use in art and culture, including the production of movies |
| Lei Saraiva-Cotejipe {prop} {f} | :: synonym of Lei dos Sexagenários |
| lêiser {m} | :: laser |
| leishmânia {f} | :: leishmania (a trypanosome protozoa of genus Leishmania) |
| leishmaniose {f} [pathology] | :: leishmaniasis (any disease caused by the protozoans of the genus Leishmania) |
| leita {f} | :: milt (fish semen) |
| leitão {m} /lɐj.ˈtɐ̃w̃/ | :: piglet (young pig) |
| leitaria {f} | :: dairy (place, where milk is processed) |
| leitaria {f} | :: dairy (shop selling dairy products) |
| leite {m} /ˈlɐj.tɨ/ | :: milk |
| leite {m} [slang] | :: semen, cum, jizz |
| leite condensado {m} | :: condensed milk (milk that has been reduced and sweetened to the consistency of syrup) |
| leite de coco {m} | :: coconut milk (liquid extracted from the meat of a brown coconut) |
| leite de peito {m} | :: breast milk (milk produced by humans) |
| leite de soja {m} | :: soy milk (beverage made from soy beans) |
| leite em pó {m} | :: powdered milk |
| leite gordo {m} | :: whole milk (milk from which nothing has been removed) |
| leiteira {f} | :: feminine noun of leiteiro |
| leiteira {f} | :: a type of pan used to boil milk |
| leiteira {f} | :: a type of pitcher used to serve milk |
| leiteiro {m} | :: milkman (man who delivers milk early in the morning) |
| leitelho {m} | :: buttermilk (liquid left over after producing butter) |
| leite materno {m} | :: mother's milk; breast milk |
| leite moça {m} [Brazil] | :: condensed milk |
| leite ninho {m} [Brazil] | :: powdered milk |
| leitmotiv {m} [music] | :: leitmotif (a recurring melodic theme in an opera) |
| leitmotiv {m} [by extension] | :: leitmotif (recurring theme) |
| leito {m} [chiefly Brazilian] /ˈlɐj.tu/ | :: hospital bed |
| leito {m} [poetic or archaic] | :: any bed |
| leito {m} | :: riverbed |
| leito de morte {m} | :: deathbed (bed or place where a dying person rests) |
| leito de morte {m} | :: deathbed (last hours before death) |
| leitor {m} /lɐj.ˈtoɾ/ | :: reader (one who reads text) |
| leitor {m} | :: reader (device which reads digital information) |
| leitor {m} | :: lector (lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service) |
| leitora {f} | :: feminine noun of leitor |
| leitoso {adj} | :: milky (resembling milk in color or consistency) |
| leituga {f} /lɐj.ˈtu.ɣɐ/ | :: cat's ear (Hypochaeris radicata); smooth cat's ear (Hypochaeris glabra) |
| leituga {f} | :: hare lettuce (Sonchus fruticosus and Sonchus pinnatus) |
| leituga {f} | :: prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola) |
| leituga {f} | :: European umbrella milkwort (Tolpis barbata) |
| leitura {f} /lɐjˈtuɾɐ/ | :: reading |
| leitura labial {f} | :: lipreading (the act of identifying what someone says from the movement of their lips) |
| lelé {adj} [colloquial, chiefly childish] | :: Lacking sanity; insane; crazy; demented |
| lema {m} | :: motto; slogan |
| Lemberga {prop} {f} | :: Lemberga (city/and/municipality/administrative center) |
| lembrança {f} /lẽ.ˈbɾɐ̃.sɐ/ | :: memory (stored record in one’s memory) |
| lembrança {f} | :: souvenir (item of sentimental value, to remember an event or location) |
| lembrancinha {f} | :: diminutive of lembrança |
| lembrancinha {f} | :: souvenir (item of sentimental value, to remember an event or location) |
| lembrar {v} [de, .optionally, ._, .pronominal] /lẽ.ˈbɾaɾ/ | :: to remember |
| lembrar {v} [de, .optionally, ._, .pronominal] | :: to remember to |
| lembrar {v} [de] | :: to remind someone to |
| lembrar {vt} | :: to resemble; to remind someone of (to look similar) |
| lembrar-se {vr} | :: to remember (to recall from one’s memory) |
| lembrete {m} | :: reminder (a note, object or event that serves to remind one of something) |
| leme {m} [nautical] /ˈle.mi/ | :: rudder (underwater vane used to steer a vessel) |
| leme {m} [aeronautics] | :: rudder (control surface of an aircraft) |
| Leme {prop} | :: Leme (municipality) |
| Leme do Prado {prop} | :: Leme do Prado (municipality) |
| lemingue {m} | :: alternative form of lémingue |
| lémingue {m} [European orthography] | :: lemming (any of several species of small Arctic and Subarctic rodents) |
| lêmingue {m} [Brazilian orthography] | :: lemming |
| Leminski {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| lemming {m} | :: alternative form of lémingue |
| lémnio {adj} [European orthography, Portugal] | :: Lemnian (of, from or pertaining to Lemnos) |
| lémnio {m} [European orthography, Portugal] | :: Lemnian (someone from Lemnos) |
| lêmnio {adj} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of lémnio |
| lêmnio {m} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of lémnio |
| lemniscata {f} [mathematics] | :: lemniscate (figure-of-eight closed curve) |
| Lemnos {prop} {f} | :: Lemnos (island/and/regional unit) |
| lémure {m} [European orthography] /ˈlɛ.mu.ɾ(ɨ)/ | :: alternative form of lêmure |
| lêmure {m} [Brazilian orthography] /ˈle.mu.ɾi/ | :: lemur |
| lêmure-voador {m} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of lémur-voador |
| Lemúria {prop} {f} [historical] | :: Lemúria (hypothetical island) |
| lémur-voador {m} [European orthography] | :: flying lemur; colugo (South-East Asian arboreal gliding mammal of genus Dermoptera) |
| Lena {prop} {m} | :: Lena (river) |
| lenço {m} /ˈlẽ.su/ | :: headscarf |
| lenço {m} | :: handkerchief |
| lenço de papel {m} /ˈlẽ.su ˈðɨ pɐ.ˈpɛɫ/ | :: tissue (sheet of absorbent paper) |
| Lençóis {prop} | :: Lençóis (municipality) |
| Lençóis Paulista {prop} | :: Lençóis Paulista (municipality) |
| lençol {m} /lẽˈsɔɫ/ | :: (bed) sheet |
| lençol freático {m} [geology] | :: an accumulation of groundwater |
| lenda {f} /ˈlẽ.dɐ/ | :: legend |
| lenda {f} | :: story describing extraordinary events |
| lenda {f} | :: person of extraordinary accomplishment |
| Lenda Negra {prop} {f} [historiography] | :: Black Legend (the depiction of Spain as cruel, greedy and fanatical) |
| lendário {adj} | :: legendary |
| lenda urbana {f} | :: urban legend |
| lêndea {f} /ˈlẽ.d͡ʒjɐ/ | :: nit (egg of a louse) |
| lene {adj} /ˈle.ni/ | :: smooth, mild, gentle, soft |
| lenga-lenga {f} | :: alternative spelling of lengalenga |
| lengalenga {f} /lẽ.ɡɐ.ˈlẽ.ɡɐ/ | :: rigmarole |
| lengalenga {f} | :: monotonous, tiresome, droning speech |
| lengalenga {f} [Portugal] | :: synonym of parlenda |
| lenha {f} /ˈle.ɲɐ/ | :: firewood |
| lenhador {m} | :: woodcutter, lumberjack |
| lenhoso {adj} [botany] | :: wooden; ligneous (made of or relating to wood) |
| lenição {f} [phonetics] | :: lenition (weakening of a consonant) |
| leniência {f} /le.niˈẽ.sja/ | :: leniency, mercy, forgiveness |
| leniência {f} | :: tolerance |
| leniente {adj} | :: lenient; tolerant; permissive |
| Leningrado {prop} {f} [historical] | :: Leningrado (city); former name of Saint Petersburg, used from 1924 to 1991 |
| Leningrado {prop} {m} | :: Leningrado (oblast) |
| leninismo {m} | :: Leninism (the political philosophy of Vladimir Lenin) |
| leninista {adj} | :: Leninist (of or relating to Lenin or Leninism) |
| leninista {mf} | :: Leninist (an adherent of Leninism) |
| lenitivo {adj} [medicine] | :: lenitive |
| lenitivo {m} [medicine] | :: lenitive |
| lenização {f} [phonetics] | :: lenition (weakening of a consonant) |
| lentamente {adv} /lẽtɐˈmẽtɨ/ | :: At slow speed; slowly |
| lente {f} [optics] /ˈlẽ.t͡ʃi/ | :: lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it) |
| lente {f} [anatomy] | :: lens (transparent crystalline structure in the eye) |
| lente {f} | :: lens (device which focuses or defocuses electron beams) |
| lente {f} [figuratively] | :: lens (a way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something) |
| lente {f} [geology] | :: a fossil or deposit between two strata |
| lente {f} | :: clipping of lente de contato |
| lente {mf} | :: teacher, professor |
| lente de contato {f} | :: contact lens (thin lens placed directly on the eye) |
| lentejoila {f} | :: alternative form of lantejoula |
| lentejoula {f} | :: alternative form of lantejoula |
| lentícula {f} [chiefly geology] /lẽˈt͡ʃi.ku.lɐ/ | :: diminutive of lente |
| lentícula {f} [botany, rare] | :: synonym of lenticela |
| lentidão {f} | :: slowness (quality of being slow) |
| lentilha {f} /lẽ.ˈt͡ʃi.ʎa/ | :: lentil (plant Lens culinaris) |
| lentilha {f} | :: lentil bean |
| lentilha-d'água {f} | :: duckweed (any of several simple, aquatic plants of the subfamily Lemnoideae) |
| lentiviral {adj} [virology] | :: lentiviral (of or pertaining to a lentivirus) |
| lentivírus {m} | :: lentivirus (any virus of the genus Lentivirus) |
| lento {adj} /ˈlẽ.tu/ | :: slow (not quick in motion) |
| lento {adj} | :: soft; not firm |
| lento {adj} | :: wet, humid, moistened, viscous, slimy |
| Leo {prop} {m} [zodiac constellations] /ˈlɛw/ | :: Leo (constellation) |
| Leo {prop} {m} | :: pet form of Leonardo |
| leoa {f} | :: lioness |
| Leoberto Leal {prop} | :: Leoberto Leal (municipality) |
| Leo Minor {prop} {f} [constellation, rare] | :: Leo Minor (a spring constellation of the northern sky) |
| Leonardes {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| Leonardo {prop} {m} /ˌle.o.ˈnaʁ.du/ | :: given name |
| Leonel {prop} {m} | :: given name |
| leonês {adj} | :: Leonese (of, from or relating to León) |
| leonês {m} | :: Leonese (someone from León) |
| leonês {m} [countable] | :: Leonese (Romance language spoken in León) |
| leonino {adj} | :: leonine (relating or similar to a lion) |
| Leonor {prop} {f} /lew.ˈnoʁ/ | :: given name |
| leoparda {f} | :: feminine noun of leopardo; leopardess |
| leopardo {m} /ˌle.o.ˈpaɻ.do/ | :: leopard |
| leopardo asiático {m} | :: leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis, a wild cat of southeast Asia) |
| leopardo-das-neves {m} | :: snow leopard (a large feline mammal, Uncia uncia) |
| leopardo-nebuloso {m} | :: clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) |
| Leopoldina {prop} | :: Leopoldina (municipality) |
| Leopoldo {prop} {m} | :: given name |
| Leópolis {prop} {f} | :: Leópolis (city/and/municipality/administrative center) |
| Leovigildo {prop} {m} | :: historical given name |
| Lepanto {prop} {f} | :: Lepanto (town) |
| lepídio {m} | :: pepperwort (plant in the genus Lepidium) |
| lépido {adj} | :: laughing, cheerful, joyful |
| lepidolita {f} [mineral] | :: lepidolite |
| lepidopterologia {f} [entomology] | :: lepidopterology (scientific study of butterflies and moths) |
| lepisma {m} | :: any insect of the genus Lepisma, such as the silverfish |
| lepra {f} /ˈlɛ.pɾɐ/ | :: leprosy (infectious disease caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae) |
| leprosaria {f} | :: leprosarium (institution or place to quarantine and treat leprous people) |
| leprosário {m} | :: leprosarium (institution or place to quarantine and treat leprous people) |
| leproso {adj} [pathology] | :: leprous (suffering from leprosy) |
| leproso {m} | :: leper (person who has leprosy) |
| leprosório {m} | :: alternative form of leprosário |
| leptão {m} [Portugal, particle] | :: lepton (elementary particle) |
| leptocúrtico {adj} [statistics] | :: leptokurtic (having positive kurtosis) |
| lépton {m} [Brazil] | :: alternative form of leptão |
| leptospirose {f} | :: leptospirosis (an acute disease caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira) |
| leque {m} /ˈlɛ.kɨ/ | :: fan (hand-held device) |
| leque {m} | :: fan (anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail) |
| leque {m} | :: array, variety, range |
| leque {m} | :: scallop |
| leque aluvial {m} [geology] | :: alluvial fan (cone-shaped deposit of alluvium) |
| lequessá {num} | :: alternative form of lacassá |
| ler {v} /leɾ/ | :: to read (to look at and interpret written information) |
| ler {v} | :: to read (to speak aloud written information) |
| LER {f} | :: acronym of lesão por esforço repetitivo |
| lerdo {adj} | :: slow |
| lerdo {adj} [by extension] | :: stupid |
| ler nas entrelinhas {v} [idiomatic] | :: to read between the lines (to infer a meaning that is not stated explicitly) |
| Leroux {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| ler-se {vr} [of text] | :: to read (to be interpreted or read in a particular way) |
| lesada {adj} | :: feminine singular form of lesado |
| lesadas {adj} | :: feminine plural form of lesado |
| lesado {adj} | :: injured |
| lesado {adj} [law] | :: aggrieved, wronged |
| lesados {adj} | :: masculine plural form of lesado |
| lesa-majestade {f} | :: lese majesty (crime against royalty) |
| lesando {v} | :: gerund of lesar |
| lesão {f} /le.ˈzɐ̃w̃/ | :: lesion, wound |
| lesão corporal {f} [legal] | :: battery (crime of striking another) |
| lesão em chicote {f} [traumatology] | :: whiplash (injury to the upper spine caused by a violent jerk of the head) |
| lesão por esforço repetitivo {f} [pathology] | :: repetitive strain injury (injury to muscles and tendons caused by repetitive use) |
| lesar {vt} | :: to prejudice; to damage |
| lesar {vt} | :: to injure; to hurt |
| lesar {vt} [law] | :: to violate |
| lesbianismo {m} | :: lesbianism |
| lésbica {f} | :: a lesbian woman |
| lésbico {adj} | :: lesbian |
| Lesbos {prop} {f} | :: Lesbos (island/and/regional unit) |
| lesma {f} /ˈlez.ma/ | :: slug (gastropod) |
| lesma {mf} [figurative] | :: a slow person |
| lesmar {vi} | :: to snail (to move too slowly) |
| Lesotho {prop} {m} | :: alternative spelling of Lesoto |
| Lesoto {prop} {m} | :: Lesoto (country) |
| lessepsiano {adj} | :: Lessepsian |
| Lessoto {prop} {m} | :: rare spelling of Lesoto |
| leste {m} /ˈlɛʃ.tɨ/ | :: east (compass point) |
| leste-sudeste {m} | :: east-southeast |
| leste-sueste {m} | :: east-southeast |
| lesto {adj} /ˈlɛʃ.tu/ | :: agile |
| letal {adj} | :: lethal |
| letalidade {f} | :: lethality |
| letão {adj} /le.ˈtɐ̃w̃/ | :: Latvian (of, or relating to Latvia) |
| letão {m} | :: Latvian (person from Latvia) |
| letão {m} [uncountable] | :: Latvian language |
| letargia {f} [pathology] | :: lethargy (pathological state of fatigue) |
| letargia {f} | :: lethargy (state of extreme torpor or apathy) |
| letárgico {adj} | :: lethargic; sluggish |
| Letícia {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| letivo {adj} | :: school (attributive) |
| Letónia {prop} {f} [European orthography] /lɨ.ˈtɔ.njɐ/ | :: Letónia (country) |
| Letônia {prop} {f} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of Letónia |
| letra {f} /ˈle.tɾɐ/ | :: letter (letter of the alphabet) |
| letra {f} | :: calligraphy (style of handwriting of a person), handwriting |
| letra {f} [colloquial] | :: font |
| letra {f} [music] | :: lyrics (words of a song) |
| letra {f} [soccer, Brazil] | :: a kind of kick, in which the player kicks with the leg opposite to the ball |
| letrado {adj} /le.ˈtɾa.du/ | :: literate (able to read, having literacy) |
| letrado {adj} | :: knowledgeable in literature; well-read |
| letrado {adj} | :: learned, erudite |
| letrado {m} | :: one who is able to read |
| letrado {m} | :: one who is knowledgeable in literature |
| letrado {m} | :: one who is learned |
| letras {n} [music] /ˈle.tɾɐʃ/ | :: lyrics |
| Letras {prop} {fp} | :: designates fields of study and academic disciplines encompassing linguistics, literature and related sciences in Portuguese-speaking countries |
| letreiro {m} | :: sign, signage |
| letreiro {m} | :: notice, label |
| letreiro {m} | :: billboard, placard |
| letrinha {f} /le.ˈtɾi.ɲɐ/ | :: diminutive of letra |
| letrista {mf} [music] | :: lyricist (person who writes the lyrics of a song) |
| lettra {f} | :: obsolete spelling of letra |
| leu {m} /ˈlew/ | :: leu (currency unit of Romania and Moldova) |
| léu {m} /ˈlɛw/ | :: idleness |
| leucemia {f} /ˌlew.se.ˈmi.a/ | :: leukemia (cancer of blood forming tissue) |
| leucemia linfoblástica aguda {f} | :: acute lymphoblastic leukemia (type of leukemia that affects the lymphocytes) |
| leucina {f} [amino acid] | :: leucine (an essential amino acid) |
| leucita {f} [mineral] | :: leucite |
| leucócito {m} | :: leukocyte |
| Leucótea {prop} {f} [Greek god] | :: Leukothea (minor sea goddess) |
| leucoxena {f} [mineral] | :: leucoxene |
| lev {m} | :: lev (currency of Bulgaria) |
| leva {f} /ˈlɛ.vɐ/ | :: wave (sudden unusually large amount of something) |
| levado {adj} /lɨ.ˈva.ðu/ | :: taken |
| levado {adj} | :: mischievous, naughty |
| Levandovsky {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| levantador {m} | :: raiser |
| levantador {m} | :: lavator |
| levantador {m} [volleyball] | :: setter (player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball) |
| levantador de peso {m} [weightlifting] | :: weightlifter (person who competes for maximum weight lifted) |
| levantador de pesos {m} | :: alternative form of levantador de peso |
| levantamento {m} | :: lifting |
| levantamento {m} | :: uplift |
| levantamento {m} | :: elevation |
| levantamento de peso {m} [sports] | :: weightlifting (sport in which competitors lift heavy weights) |
| levantar {v} /lɨ.vɐ̃.ˈtaɾ/ | :: [de, .sometimes, .pronominal] to stand up; to get up (to rise from a lying, sitting or fallen position) |
| levantar {vt} | :: to raise; to get someone up (to cause someone or something to stand up) |
| levantar {vip} | :: to get up (to get out of bed after waking up) |
| levantar {vt} | :: to lift; to raise (to put into a higher position) |
| levantar {vt} | :: to raise (to cause to have a higher value) |
| levantar {v} | :: [.figurative, .pronominal, de] to get up (to recover from a setback) |
| levantar {vt} | :: to raise (to collect or levy) |
| levantar {vt} | :: to build; to erect (to create a building) |
| levantar {vt} | :: to raise; to put forth (to cause to arise; to create) |
| levantar {v} | :: [contra, .pronominal] to revolt (against); to rebel (against) (to start a rebellion) |
| levantar {v} | :: [contra] to revolt (to provoke into rebellion) |
| levantar {vit} | :: [volleyball] to set (to put the ball in the air such that it can be driven by an attack) |
| levantar do lado errado da cama {v} [idiomatic] | :: to get up on the wrong side of the bed (to feel irritable without a particular reason) |
| levantar voo {v} [of an aircraft or spacecraft] | :: to take off (to begin flight) |
| levante {m} | :: east, orient |
| levante {m} | :: revolt, rebellion |
| Levante {prop} {m} | :: Levante (traditional region) |
| levantino {adj} | :: Levantine (of, from or relating to the Levant) |
| levantino {m} | :: a person from the Levant |
| levar {vt} /lɨ.ˈvaɾ/ | :: to take (to move something to a destination) |
| levar {vt} | :: to take away (to remove someone or something from the current location) |
| levar {vt} | :: to take out (to get food from an eatery to be eaten elsewhere) |
| levar {vt} | :: to accompany; to take (to go with somebody somewhere) |
| levar {vt} | :: [figurative] to take to; to bring to (to provide with or introduce to) |
| levar {vt} | :: to take (to remove something from its rightful place or owner) |
| levar {vt} | :: to sweep away; to blow away (to destructively move something away) |
| levar {vt} | :: to steal; to take (to illegally take an object from its owner) |
| levar {vt} | :: [euphemistic] to take; to kill (to cause someone to die) |
| levar {vt} | :: to take (to be the object of an interaction, especially a violent one) |
| levar {vi} | :: [colloquial] to get it (to be punished or beaten up) |
| levar {vt} | :: to take (to require a given amount of time) |
| levar {vt} | :: to contain; to take (to have as an ingredient) |
| levar {vt} | :: to take (to have capacity for) |
| levar {vt} | :: to carry (to have in one’s immediate possession) |
| levar {v} | :: [a, .of a path] to lead to (to have as its destination) |
| levar {v} | :: [a] to lead to (to produce or tend to produce a given result) |
| levar {v} | :: [por, .pronominal] to let oneself be overwhelmed by an emotion or force |
| levar {vt} | :: to take (to face consequences for) |
| levar a breca {v} [idiomatic] | :: to suffer a misfortune |
| levar a breca {v} [idiomatic] | :: to disappear |
| levar a breca {v} [idiomatic] | :: to die |
| levar a cabo {v} [idiom] | :: to carry out (to do something) |
| levar água ao mar {v} [idiomatic] | :: to carry coals to Newcastle (do something unneeded or redundant) |
| levar às cavalitas {vt} | :: to piggyback (to carry someone on one’s back or shoulders) |
| levar em conta {v} [idiomatic] | :: to take into account (to consider or regard) |
| levar tempo {v} | :: to take time (to require a comparatively long period of time) |
| leve {adj} /ˈlɛ.vɨ/ | :: light (of low weight; not heavy) |
| leve {adj} | :: gentle, light (having little force) |
| leve como uma pena {adj} [simile] | :: light as a feather (extremely light, having minimal weight) |
| lêvedo {adj} [of dough] | :: leavened or fermented with yeast |
| levedura {f} | :: yeast |
| Leve Leite {prop} {m} | :: A government program to distribute milk to children in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, established in 1995 |
| levemente {adv} | :: lightly (in a light manner; with little weight or force) |
| levemente {adv} | :: slightly (to a very small extent) |
| leveza {f} | :: lightness, weightlessness |
| leveza {f} | :: levity |
| Levi {prop} {m} [biblical character] | :: Levi (third son of Jacob) |
| Levi {prop} {m} | :: given name |
| leviandade {f} | :: levity (lightness of manner or speech) |
| leviano {adj} | :: flighty, thoughtless |
| leviano {adj} | :: frivolous, flippant |
| leviano {adj} | :: fickle |
| leviano {adj} | :: imprudent, inconsiderate |
| leviano {adj} | :: precipitate, rash |
| leviano {adj} [Brazil] | :: light, weightless |
| leviatã {m} [Bible] | :: leviathan (biblical sea monster) |
| levístico {m} | :: lovage (a Mediterranean herb) |
| levitação {f} | :: levitation (raising of something without apparent physical cause) |
| levitar {v} | :: to levitate |
| Levítico {prop} {m} [book of the bible] | :: Leviticus (the book of the Bible and Torah) |
| Levitsky {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| levogiro {adj} | :: alternative form of levógiro |
| levógiro {adj} | :: levogyre; levorotatory (that rotates the plane of polarised light to the left) |
| Lewandowski {prop} {mf} /ˌle.vɐ̃.ˈdɔvs.ki/ | :: surname |
| Lewicki {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| lexema {m} [linguistics] | :: lexeme (unit of vocabulary) |
| lexical {adj} | :: synonym of léxico |
| léxico {m} | :: lexicon (the words of a language or in a given field) |
| léxico {adj} | :: lexical (concerning the words of a language) |
| lexicografia {f} | :: lexicography (art or craft of writing dictionaries) |
| lexicográfico {adj} | :: lexicographic |
| lexicógrafo {m} | :: lexicographer (one who writes or compiles a dictionary) |
| lexicologia {f} [linguistics] /ˌlɛk.si.ko.lo.ˈʒi.a/ | :: lexicology (linguistic discipline) |
| lexicología {f} | :: obsolete spelling of lexicologia |
| lexicologicamente {adv} | :: lexicologically |
| léxicon {m} | :: alternative form of léxico |
| lexiologia {f} | :: alternative form of lexicologia |
| ley {f} | :: obsolete spelling of lei |
| leygo {m} | :: obsolete spelling of leigo |
| leygo {adj} | :: obsolete spelling of leigo |
| leylam {f} | :: obsolete spelling of leilão |
| leylaõ {f} | :: obsolete spelling of leilão |
| leylão {f} | :: obsolete spelling of leilão |
| leytor {m} | :: obsolete spelling of leitor |
| lezira {f} | :: alternative form of lezíria |
| lezíria {f} /lɨ.ˈzi.ɾi.ɐ/ | :: marshland |
| lgc {interj} [Internet slang] | :: lógico! |
| lha {contraction} /ˈʎɐ/ | :: contraction of lhe a |
| lha {contraction} | :: contraction of lhes a |
| lhama {mf} /ˈʎɐ.mɐ/ | :: llama |
| lhas {contraction} /ˈʎɐʃ/ | :: contraction of lhe as |
| lhas {contraction} | :: contraction of lhes as |
| Lhasa {prop} {f} | :: alternative form of Lassa |
| lhe {pron} /ʎɨ/ | :: third-person singular indirect objective personal pronoun; (to) him/her/it |
| lhe {pron} | :: second-person singular indirect objective personal pronoun, when used with a pronoun other than tu; (to) you |
| lhe {pron} | :: equivalent to a third- or second-person possessive pronoun |
| lho {contraction} /ˈʎu/ | :: contraction of lhe o it/him to him/her/it |
| lho {contraction} | :: contraction of lhes o |
| lhos {contraction} /ˈʎuʃ/ | :: contraction of lhe os |
| lhos {contraction} | :: contraction of lhes os |
| Lia {prop} {f} | :: Leah (elder daughter of Laban) |
| Lia {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| Liampó {prop} | :: Liampó (port-city/prefecture-level city/and/subprovincial city) |
| libação {f} | :: libation |
| libanês {adj} | :: Lebanese (of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon) |
| libanês {m} | :: Lebanese (a person from Lebanon) |
| Líbano {prop} {m} /ˈli.bɐ.nu/ | :: Líbano (country) |
| libelinha {f} | :: damselfly (insect) |
| libelo {m} | :: libel |
| libelo de sangue {m} | :: blood libel (the accusation that Jews abduct Christian children to collect their blood) |
| libélula {f} /liˈbɛlulɐ/ | :: dragonfly |
| liberação {f} /liβɨɾɐˈsɐ̃w̃/ | :: liberation (all senses) |
| liberal {adj} /li.βɨ.ˈɾaɫ/ | :: liberal, generous, tolerant |
| liberal {adj} [politics] | :: liberal |
| liberal {mf} [politics] | :: liberal |
| liberalidade {f} | :: liberality |
| liberalidade {f} | :: generosity, largesse |
| liberalismo {m} | :: liberalism (the quality of being liberal) |
| liberalismo {m} [politics] | :: liberalism (movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual) |
| liberalismo {m} [economics] | :: liberalism (theory in favour of laissez faire and the free market) |
| liberalíssimo {adj} | :: very bounteous |
| liberalmente {adv} | :: liberally |
| liberar {v} | :: to release (free, liberate) |
| liberar {v} | :: to allow; to legalise |
| Liberato Salzano {prop} | :: Liberato Salzano (municipality) |
| liberdade {f} /li.βɨɾ.ˈða.ðɨ/ | :: liberty, freedom |
| liberdade condicional {f} | :: parole (release of a prisoner on the understanding that he checks in regularly and obeys the law) |
| liberdade de expressão {f} /li.βɨɾ.ˈða.ðɨ ðɐjʃ.pɾɨ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ | :: freedom of expression (right to voice one’s opinion without fear of harm) |
| liberdade de imprensa {f} /li.βɨɾ.ˈða.ðɨ ðĩ.ˈpɾẽ.sɐ/ | :: freedom of the press (right of media to disseminate ideas and opinions) |
| Libéria {prop} {f} /li.ˈbɛ.ɾi.ɐ/ | :: Libéria (country) |
| liberiano {adj} | :: Liberian (of, from or relating to Liberia) |
| liberiano {m} | :: Liberian (a person from Liberia) |
| líbero {mf} [volleyball] | :: libero (designated ball-control specialist) |
| liberrimamente {adv} /li.ˌbɛ.ʁi.mɐ.ˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/ | :: superlative of livremente |
| libérrimo {adj} /li.ˈbɛ.ʁi.mu/ | :: superlative of livre |
| libertação {f} /li.βɨɾ.tɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ | :: release, liberation |
| libertação {f} | :: deliverance |
| libertação {f} | :: freedom |
| libertação {f} | :: emancipation |
| libertar {v} /ˌli.βɨɾ.ˈtaɾ/ | :: to free, liberate (make free) |
| libertarianismo {m} | :: libertarianism (political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives) |
| libertário {adj} | :: libertarian |
| libertário {m} | :: libertarian |
| libertarismo {m} | :: alternative form of libertarianismo |
| liberticida {adj} | :: liberticidal, liberticide |
| liberticida {mf} | :: liberticide (one who causes the destruction of liberty) |
| liberticídio {m} | :: liberticide (the destruction of liberty) |
| libertinagem {f} | :: debauchery; profligacy (shameless and immoral behaviour) |
| Líbia {prop} {f} | :: Líbia (country) |
| libidinoso {adj} | :: libidinous, lustful |
| libido {f} [psychology] | :: libido (sexual urges or drives) |
| libido {f} [psychology] | :: libido (drives based on sexual instincts) |
| líbio {adj} | :: Libyan (of, from or relating to Libya) |
| líbio {m} | :: Libyan (person from Lybia) |
| libra {f} /ˈli.βɾɐ/ | :: pound (unit of mass) |
| libra {f} | :: pound (unit of sterling or other currency) |
| Libra {f} [astrology] /ˈli.bɾɐ/ | :: Libra (astrological sign) |
| Libra {f} [zodiac constellations] | :: Libra (constellation) |
| libra esterlina {f} | :: pound sterling (currency of the United Kingdom) |
| libras {f} | :: alternative spelling of LIBRAS |
| Libras {f} | :: alternative spelling of LIBRAS |
| LIBRAS {f} /ˈli.bɾɐs/ | :: acronym of língua brasileira de sinais |
| libré {f} | :: livery (distinctive uniform worn by a group) |
| libreto {m} | :: alternative form of livreto |
| Libreville {prop} {f} | :: Libreville (capital city) |
| licanço {m} | :: alternative form of licranço |
| licantropia {f} [mythology] | :: lycanthropy (ability to shapeshift into a wolf) |
| licantropo {m} [mythology] | :: werewolf; lycanthrope (human who shapeshifts into a wold) |
| lição {f} /liˈsɐ̃w̃/ | :: lesson |
| lição de casa {f} | :: homework (schoolwork that is done at home) |
| licença {f} /li.ˈsẽ.sɐ/ | :: license; permit (legal document giving official permission to do something) |
| licença {f} | :: authorization; permission |
| licença {f} | :: permission given to an employee to miss work for some time (due to ill health, for example) |
| licença {interj} | :: clipping of com licença |
| licença artística {f} [arts] | :: artistic licence (any departure from fact or convention by an artist) |
| licença poética {f} [narratology] | :: poetic licence (the figurative right to embellish a story) |
| licenciatura {f} [Portugal, before the Bologna Process] | :: the academic degree earned for finishing a course with the duration of four, five or, in some cases, six years |
| licenciatura {f} [Portugal, after the Bologna Process] | :: the academic degree earned for finishing the first study cycle |
| licenciatura {f} [Brazil] | :: an academic degree which allows the person to teach primary and secondary education |
| licenciosidade {f} | :: profligacy (shameless and immoral behaviour) |
| licencioso {adj} | :: licentious |
| liceu {m} [dated, colloquial] /liˈsew/ | :: secondary school |
| lichia {f} | :: lychee (tree) |
| lichia {f} | :: lychee (fruit) |
| Lícia {prop} {f} | :: Lícia (historical region/and/province) |
| Licínio de Almeida {prop} | :: Licínio de Almeida (municipality) |
| lício {adj} | :: Lycian (of, from or relating to Lycia) |
| lício {m} | :: Lycian (native of Lycia) |
| lício {m} [uncountable] | :: Lycian (Anatolian language spoken in ancient Lycia) |
| licitação {f} | :: licitation |
| licitação {f} | :: bidding (at an auction) |
| licitamente {adv} | :: licitly, legally |
| licitando {v} | :: gerund of licitar |
| licitar {v} | :: to bid |
| licitar {v} | :: to auction |
| lícito {adj} | :: lawful, licit |
| licitude {f} | :: permissibility |
| licitude {f} | :: legality |
| licor {m} /liˈkoɾ/ | :: liquor (strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation) |
| licorne {m} | :: unicorn |
| licoroso {adj} [of wine] | :: sweet |
| licranço {m} /liˈkɾɐ̃.su/ | :: slowworm (Anguis fragilis, a legless Old-World lizard) |
| lictor {m} | :: lictor (official in Ancient Rome) |
| lida {f} | :: read (an instance of reading) |
| lida {f} | :: the act of dealing with something |
| lida {f} | :: drudgery; labour; habitual work |
| lidar {v} /li.ˈðaɾ/ | :: to deal with, to handle |
| lidar {v} | :: to fight, to struggle |
| lidar {v} | :: to bullfight |
| lide {f} | :: work; toil |
| lide {f} | :: fight |
| líder {mf} /ˈli.ðɛɾ/ | :: leader |
| liderança {f} [uncountable] /li.ðɨ.ˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/ | :: leadership (capacity of someone to lead) |
| liderança {f} | :: [collectively] the leaders of an organisation |
| liderando {v} | :: gerund of liderar |
| liderar {v} /li.ðɨ.ˈɾaɾ/ | :: to lead or head |
| líder de torcida {f} | :: cheerleader (person who encourages a team or entertains the audience) |
| líder supremo {m} | :: See: pt líder supremo |
| líder supremo {m} | :: Supreme Leader (head of state of Iran) |
| Lídia {prop} {f} /ˈli.d͡ʒjɐ/ | :: given name |
| Lídia {prop} {f} | :: Lídia (historical region/and/ancient kingdom) |
| lídimo {adj} /ˈli.ði.mu/ | :: legal, lawful, legitimate |
| lídio {adj} | :: Lydian (of, from or relating to Lydia) |
| lídio {m} | :: Lydian (native of Lydia) |
| lídio {m} [uncountable] | :: Lydian (Anatolian language spoken in ancient Lydia) |
| lido {adj} | :: well-read |
| lidocaína {f} | :: lidocaine |
| Liechtenstein {prop} {m} | :: Liechtenstein (country) |
| Liège {prop} {f} | :: Liège (province) |
| Liège {prop} {f} | :: Liège (city/provincial capital) |
| lierne {m} [rare, architecture] | :: lierne |
| liga {f} /ˈli.ɡɐ/ | :: alloy (metal combined of more elements) |
| liga {f} | :: league; group; association |
| liga {f} | :: league (organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship) |
| liga {f} [uncountable] | :: connection (act of connecting) |
| liga {f} | :: garter (band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking) |
| Liga Árabe {prop} {f} [geopolitics] | :: Arab League (an international organisation of Arabic-speaking nations) |
| ligação {f} /li.ɣɐˈsɐ̃w̃/ | :: link |
| ligação {f} | :: connection |
| ligação {f} [Portugal, internet] | :: hyperlink, weblink |
| ligação {f} | :: call (telephone conversation) |
| ligado {adj} /li.ˈɣa.ðu/ | :: connected |
| ligado {adj} | :: turned on |
| ligado {adj} | :: bandaged |
| ligado {adj} [Brazil, slang] | :: attentive, watchful |
| ligado no 220 {adj} [Brazil, idiom, colloquial] | :: restless, uneasy (unable to hold still, continually moving) |
| ligadura {f} [surgery] | :: ligature (thread used to close a vessel or duct) |
| ligadura {f} [music] | :: slur; ligature (the symbol indicating a legato passage) |
| ligamento {m} [anatomy] /liɣɐˈmẽtu/ | :: ligament (band of strong tissue that holds the bones of an animal in position) |
| ligando {m} [chemistry] | :: ligand (something that binds to another chemical entity) |
| ligante {m} [chemistry] | :: ligand (something that binds to another chemical entity) |
| ligar {vt} /li.ˈɣaɾ/ | :: to link; to connect; to join (to put things together so they work together) |
| ligar {vt} | :: to connect; to associate (to consider multiples things related) |
| ligar {vt} | :: to turn on (to make a device start operating) |
| ligar {v} [para, a, -an indirect objective pronoun, .telephony] | :: to call; to dial (to attempt to talk to someone with a telephone) |
| ligar {v} [para, .Brazil, .informal] | :: to care (about); to mind (to have concern or interest in) |
| ligar {vr} [Brazil, colloquial] | :: to become aware; to realize or perceive something |
| ligar {vt} [metallurgy] | :: to alloy (to make an alloy from) |
| ligar {vt} [surgery] | :: to tie (to tie a ligature around a vessel) |
| ligatura {f} [typography] | :: ligature (character that combines multiple letters) |
| ligeiramente {adv} | :: lightly |
| ligeiramente {adv} | :: slightly |
| ligeireza {f} | :: lightness |
| ligeireza {f} | :: brevity |
| ligeireza {f} | :: rapidity |
| ligeiro {adj} | :: light |
| ligeiro {adj} | :: quick, nimble |
| light {adj} [of food] /ˈlajt͡ʃ/ | :: light (low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt or other undesirable substances) |
| lignina {f} [organic compound] | :: lignin (aromatic polymer) |
| lignite {f} | :: lignite (type of coal) |
| ligre {m} | :: liger (hybrid animal born to a male lion and a tigress) |
| lígure {adj} | :: Ligurian (of, from or relating to Liguria) |
| lígure {adj} | :: Ligurian (belonging or relating to the Ligurians, an ancient tribe of northwestern Italy) |
| lígure {mf} | :: Ligurian (native of Liguria) |
| lígure {mf} | :: Ligurian (one of an ancient tribe of northwestern Italy) |
| lígure {mf} | :: Ligurian (Gallo-Italic language spoken in Liguria and Monaco) |
| lígure {mf} | :: Ligurian (ancient Indo-European language spoken by the Ligurians) |
| Ligúria {prop} {f} | :: Ligúria (region) |
| ligúrio {adj} | :: Ligurian (of or pertaining to Liguria) |
| ligúrio {m} | :: Ligurian (person from Liguria) |
| ligúrio {m} | :: Ligurian (Gallo-Italic language) |
| lilás {adj} | :: lilac (colour) |
| lilás {m} | :: lilac (plant, colour) |
| lilau {f} | :: fountain |
| lilau {f} | :: mountain spring water |
| Liliana {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| Lilongwe {prop} {f} /lilõˈɡwɛ/ | :: Lilongwe (city/capital city) |
| lima {f} /ˈlima/ | :: lime (fruit) |
| lima {f} | :: file (tool to smoothen a surface) |
| Lima {prop} {m} /ˈli.mɐ/ | :: Lima (river) |
| Lima {prop} {f} | :: Lima (capital city) |
| limaçon de Pascal {f} [geometry] | :: limaçon (plane curve) |
| Lima Duarte {prop} | :: Lima Duarte (municipality) |
| limalha {f} [in the plural] | :: filings |
| limão {m} /liˈmɐ̃w̃/ | :: lemon (citrus fruit) |
| limão {m} [Brazil] | :: lime (citrus fruit) |
| limão {m} [Southern Brazil] | :: lemandarin, rangpur |
| limar {vt} | :: to file (to smooth with a file) |
| límbico {adj} [anatomy] | :: limbic |
| limbo {m} [Roman Catholicism] | :: limbo (place for innocent souls) |
| limbo {m} [figurative] | :: limbo (state of neglect or oblivion) |
| limbo {m} [botany] | :: blade (the flat part of a leaf or petal) |
| Limburg {prop} {m} | :: alternative form of Limburgo |
| Limburgo {prop} {m} | :: Limburgo (province) |
| Limburgo {prop} {m} | :: Limburgo (province) |
| limburguês {m} /ˌlĩ.buɾ.ˈɡe(j)s/ | :: someone from Limburg |
| limburguês {m} [uncountable] | :: Limburgish (Germanic language) |
| limburguês {adj} | :: of Limburg |
| limeira {f} /li.ˈme(j).ɾa/ | :: lime [citrus tree] |
| Limeira {prop} | :: Limeira (municipality) |
| Limeira do Oeste {prop} | :: Limeira do Oeste (municipality) |
| limerence {f} [psychology, rare] | :: limerence (state of mind caused by a romantic attraction) |
| limiar {m} | :: threshold, border, limit |
| limiar {adv} | :: no limiar de: about to |
| liminar {f} [law] | :: preliminary injunction |
| limitação {f} /li.mi.tɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ | :: limitation |
| limitação {f} | :: shortcoming |
| limitado {adj} /limiˈtaðu/ | :: limited |
| limitando {v} | :: gerund of limitar |
| limitar {v} /li.mi.ˈtaɾ/ | :: to limit, confine, demarcate |
| limite {m} /li.ˈmi.t͡ʃi/ | :: limitation; limit |
| limítrofe {adj} /lɨˈmitɾufɨ/ | :: neighbouring, bordering |
| limítrofe {adj} [attributive] | :: frontier |
| limnologia {f} | :: limnology (science of studying lakes) |
| limoado {adj} | :: alternative form of limonado |
| limoeiro {m} /li.ˈmwɐj.ɾu/ | :: lemon (tree) |
| limoeiro {m} [Brazil] | :: lime (tree) |
| limoeiro {m} [Southern Brazil] | :: lemandarin (tree), rangpur (tree) |
| limonada {f} | :: lemonade |
| limonado {adj} | :: lemon (having a light greenish-yellow colour) |
| limonita {f} [mineral] | :: limonite |
| limousine {f} | :: alternative spelling of limusine |
| limpa-chaminés {mf} | :: chimney sweep (person whose job is to clean soot from chimneys) |
| limpador {m} | :: cleaner (person or device that cleans) |
| limpador {adj} | :: which or who cleans |
| limpador de chaminés {m} | :: chimney sweep (person whose job is to clean soot from chimneys) |
| limpador de parabrisa {m} | :: windscreen wiper (device to clear a windshield) |
| limpador de parabrisas {m} | :: alternative form of limpador de parabrisa |
| limpamente {adv} | :: cleanly |
| limpa-neve {m} | :: snow plough (vehicle used to push snow off roads) |
| limpante {adj} | :: cleaning |
| limpar {v} /lĩ.ˈpaɾ/ | :: to clean (to remove dirt from a place or object) |
| limpar {v} [figurative] | :: to remove all contents from a location or container |
| limpar {vi} [of the sky or weather] | :: to stop being cloudy or foggy; to clear up |
| limpar {v} | :: to eviscerate and descale an animal for consumption |
| limpar o salão {v} | :: See: pt limpar o salão |
| limpar o salão {v} [idiomatic] | :: to pick one's nose (to remove snot from one’s nose manually) |
| limpeza {f} [uncountable] /lĩ.ˈpe.zɐ/ | :: cleanliness (the property of being cleanly) |
| limpeza {f} | :: act of cleaning |
| limpêza {f} | :: obsolete spelling of limpeza |
| limpeza étnica {f} | :: ethnic cleansing (extermination or expulsion of an ethnic group) |
| limpidez {f} | :: clarity |
| limpidez {f} | :: purity |
| limpidez {f} | :: transparency |
| límpido {adj} | :: limpid, clear, bright, transparent |
| limpo {adj} /ˈlĩ.pu/ | :: clean (not dirty) |
| limpo {adj} | :: clean (not having used drugs or alcohol) |
| limusina {f} | :: alternative form of limusine |
| limusine {f} | :: limousine (a luxury sedan/saloon car) |
| Limusino {prop} {m} [dated] | :: synonym of Limousin |
| Limusino {m} | :: Limousin (a breed of cattle) |
| linária {f} | :: toadflax (any plant of the genus Linaria) |
| lince {m} /ˈlĩ.sɨ/ | :: lynx |
| lince-do-canadá {m} | :: Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) |
| lince-do-deserto {m} | :: caracal (Caracal caracal) |
| lince-ibérico {m} /lĩ.si.ˈβɛ.ɾi.ku/ | :: Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) |
| lince-vermelho {m} | :: bobcat (Lynx rufus) |
| linchagem {f} | :: lynching (execution of a person without a proper legal trial) |
| linchamento {m} | :: lynching (execution of a person without a proper legal trial) |
| linchar {v} | :: to lynch (to execute without a proper legal trial) |
| linda {f} /ˈlĩ.dɐ/ | :: feminine noun of lindo |
| lindamente {adv} | :: prettily; beautifully (in a beautiful manner) |
| lindeza {f} | :: prettiness |
| lindíssimo {adj} | :: superlative of lindo |
| lindo {adj} /ˈlĩ.du/ | :: beautiful; gorgeous; |
| lindo {m} | :: beauty (a beautiful person) |
| Lindóia {prop} | :: Lindóia (municipality) |
| Lindóia do Sul {prop} | :: Lindóia do Sul (municipality) |
| Lindolfo Collor {prop} | :: Lindolfo Collor (municipality) |
| linear {adj} | :: linear (having the form of a straight line) |
| linear {adj} [mathematics] | :: linear (being a first-degree polynomial) |
| linear {adj} | :: linear (made in a step-by-step, logical manner) |
| linearidade {f} | :: linearity |
| Lineu {prop} {m} | :: given name |
| Lineu {prop} {m} | :: surname Linnaeus |
| linfa {f} [physiology, immunology] | :: lymph (fluid carried by the lymphatic system) |
| linfático {adj} [anatomy] | :: lymphatic (pertaining to lymph or lymphatic system) |
| linfócito {m} [cytology, immunology] | :: lymphocyte (type of white blood cell) |
| linfoide {adj} [anatomy] | :: lymphoid (like or relating to the lymphatic system) |
| linfóide {adj} | :: obsolete spelling of linfoide |
| linfoma {m} [oncology, pathology] | :: lymphoma (malignant tumour that arises in lymphoid tissue) |
| linfoma de Hodgkin {m} [disease, oncology] | :: Hodgkin's lymphoma (malignant lymphoid neoplasm) |
| linfonodo {m} [anatomy, immunology] | :: lymph node (filtrating oval bodies of the lymphatic system) |
| lingala {m} /lĩ.ˈɡa.lɐ/ | :: Lingala (Bantu language) |
| lingerie {f} /lɐ̃ʒeˈʁi/ | :: women's underwear |
| lingotar {v} | :: to cast into ingots |
| lingote {m} | :: ingot |
| língua {f} [anatomy] /ˈlĩ.ɡwɐ/ | :: tongue |
| língua {f} | :: language |
| língua artificial {f} [linguistics] | :: constructed language (an artificially created language) |
| língua auxiliar {f} | :: auxiliary language (language used for intercommunication between people who speak different languages) |
| língua azul {f} | :: See: pt língua azul |
| língua azul {f} | :: bluetongue (disease of ruminants) |
| língua brasileira de sinais {f} | :: Brazilian Sign Language (sign language used in Brazil) |
| língua de sinais {f} | :: sign language (language where the words consist of hand shapes, motions, positions and facial expressions) |
| língua de sinais americana {f} | :: American Sign Language (a sign language used in the United States and Canada) |
| língua de sinais argentina {f} | :: Argentine Sign Language (a sign language used in Argentina) |
| linguado {m} | :: sole, flounder |
| língua d'oc {f} | :: Occitan (Romance language spoken in southern France) |
| língua estrangeira {f} | :: foreign language (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place) |
| língua franca {f} | :: lingua franca (language used for communication between peoples) |
| linguagem {f} /lĩ.ˈɡwa.ʒɐ̃j̃/ | :: language (the general system or concept of communication using words, symbols or gestures) |
| linguagem {f} | :: language (wording, choice of words; style) |
| linguagem {f} | :: language (a particular language used by a group of people, spoken or written) |
| linguagem {f} | :: jargon (language characteristic of a particular group) |
| linguagem {f} [computing] | :: programming language |
| linguagem corporal {f} | :: body language (nonverbal communication) |
| linguagem de computador {f} [programming, uncommon] | :: computer language; programming language |
| linguagem de consulta {f} [computing] | :: query language (computer language used to access and modify databases) |
| linguagem de marcação {f} | :: markup language (computer language that uses markups) |
| Linguagem de Marcação de Hipertexto {prop} {f} | :: Hypertext Markup Language |
| linguagem de montagem {f} [computing] | :: assembly language (programming language using mnemonics that correspond to processor instructions) |
| linguagem de programação {f} [programming] | :: programming language (code of reserved words and symbols) |
| linguagem de sinais {f} | :: sign language (language where the words consist of hand shapes, motions, positions, and facial expressions) |
| linguagem formal {f} [computing theory] | :: formal language (a finite set of possible strings) |
| língua geral {f} | :: Old Tupi (Tupian language used as a lingua franca in early colonial Brasil) |
| linguajar {m} | :: the way someone speaks |
| linguajar {v} | :: to talk, to chat |
| lingual {adj} [anatomy] /lĩ.ˈɡwaɫ/ | :: lingual (relating to the tongue) |
| lingual {adj} [phonetics] | :: lingual (articulated with the tongue) |
| língua materna {f} | :: mother tongue (one's native tongue) |
| língua natural {f} | :: natural language (language that developed naturally) |
| linguarudo {adj} /lĩɲ̞ᵑɡʷaˈɾudʊ̥/ | :: long-tongued |
| linguarudo {adj} [figurative] | :: who speaks too much and ends up inappropriately revealing information; who is a big mouth; who is a compulsive gossiper |
| linguarudo {adj} | :: popular name for a genus of sea snails, Olivancillaria, so called because of the anatomical structure it uses for burrowing into the sand |
| linguatulose {f} | :: linguatulosis (parasitical condition caused by the Linguatula serrata) |
| linguiça {f} /lĩ.ɡuˈi.sɐ/ | :: linguica, longaniza, long pork sausage |
| lingüiça {f} | :: obsolete spelling of linguiça |
| linguista {mf} | :: linguist (one who studies linguistics) |
| lingüista {mf} | :: obsolete spelling of linguista |
| linguística {f} | :: linguistics |
| lingüística {f} | :: obsolete form of linguística |
| linguística computacional {f} [linguistics, computer science] | :: computational linguistics (field dealing with the rule-based modelling of natural language) |
| linguística diacrônica {f} [linguistics] | :: diachronic linguistics |
| linguística histórica {f} [linguistics] | :: historical linguistics |
| linguístico {adj} | :: linguistic (relating to languages) |
| lingüístico {adj} | :: obsolete spelling of linguístico |
| linha {f} /ˈli.ɲɐ/ | :: line; string; thread |
| linha {f} | :: line (path through two or more points) |
| linha {f} | :: line (threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body) |
| linha {f} | :: line (circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map) |
| linha {f} | :: line (straight sequence of people or objects) |
| linha {f} | :: line (row of text) |
| linha {f} | :: line or series of products |
| linha {f} | :: line (telephone connection) |
| linha {f} | :: fishing line |
| linha {f} | :: railroad track |
| linha {f} | :: mass transportation itinerary |
| linha aérea {f} | :: airline (company that flies aeroplanes) |
| linha branca {f} | :: Collectively, the most common electric appliances: fridge, stove, microwave, etc |
| linhaça {f} | :: linseed (seeds of the flax plant) |
| linha costeira {f} | :: coastline (shape, outline or boundary of a coast.) |
| linhada {f} | :: a casting of the fishing line |
| linha de Armstrong {f} | :: Armstrong line (altitude above which water boils without a pressurised environment) |
| linha de chegada {f} [sports] | :: finish line (line marking end of a race) |
| linha de comando {f} [computing] | :: command line (text prompt where the user inputs commands) |
| linha de pesca {f} | :: fishing line (chord or line where the hook or lure is attached) |
| linha de Wallace {prop} {f} [biogeography] | :: Wallace Line (line that separates the ecozones of Asia and Wallacea) |
| linha do tempo {f} | :: timeline (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events) |
| linha-dura {mf} | :: hard-liner (a person who takes a firm position on some policy) |
| linha-dura {adj} | :: hardline (rigidly holding to a set of beliefs) |
| linhagem {f} | :: lineage (series or succession of ancestors or descendants) |
| Linha Nova {prop} | :: Linha Nova (municipality) |
| linhite {f} | :: lignite (type of coal) |
| linho {m} /ˈli.ɲu/ | :: flax |
| linho {m} | :: linen (material) |
| link {m} [computing] | :: link (text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document) |
| linoléico {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: linoleic |
| linque {m} [computing, internet] | :: link |
| Lins {prop} | :: Lins (municipality) |
| lintel {m} /lĩˈtɛw/ | :: lintel |
| lio {m} | :: sheaf; bundle (collection of things bound together) |
| lipase {f} [enzyme] | :: lipase (any enzyme which catalyses the hydrolysis of lipids) |
| Lipetsk {prop} {f} | :: Lipetsk (oblast) |
| Lipetsk {prop} {f} | :: Lipetsk (city/administrative center) |
| lípide {m} [organic chemistry] | :: lipid |
| lipídio {m} [organic chemistry] | :: lipid |
| lipo {f} | :: short for lipoaspiração |
| lipoaspiração {f} [surgery] | :: liposuction (surgery in which fat is removed by suction) |
| lipofílico {adj} | :: lipophilic (which dissolves fats) |
| lipograma {m} | :: lipogram |
| lipomeria {f} [pathology] | :: lipomeria |
| lipoproteína {f} [biochemistry] | :: lipoprotein (an assembly that contains both proteins and lipids) |
| lipossolúvel {adj} | :: liposoluble |
| liposucção {f} [surgery, rare] | :: liposuction (surgery in which fat is removed by suction) |
| lipoxigenase {f} [enzyme] | :: lipoxygenase |
| Lípsia {prop} {f} /ˈlip.sjɐ/ | :: Lípsia (city) |
| liquefação {f} | :: liquefaction |
| liquefazendo {v} | :: gerund of liquefazer |
| liquefazer {vt} | :: to liquify |
| líquen {m} | :: lichen (symbiotic organism) |
| liquidação {f} [finance] | :: settlement |
| liquidação {f} | :: liquidation |
| liquidação {f} | :: clearance sale |
| liquidador {m} | :: liquidator (one who liquidates) |
| liquidador {m} | :: liquidator (worker involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster) |
| liquidadora {f} | :: female equivalent of liquidador |
| liquidâmbar {m} | :: sweetgum (any of the deciduous trees of genus Liquidambar) |
| liquidando {v} | :: gerund of liquidar |
| liquidar {v} | :: to settle |
| liquidar {v} | :: to liquidate |
| liquidar {v} | :: to pay off |
| liquidar {v} [slang] | :: to kill |
| liquidez {m} | :: liquidity |
| liquidificador {m} | :: blender (machine with rotating blades, used to mash or liquefy food ingredients) |
| líquido {m} [chemistry, physics] /ˈli.ki.ðu/ | :: liquid (substance that is liquid) |
| líquido {adj} [chemistry, physics] | :: liquid (not solid or gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure) |
| líquido {adj} [finance] | :: liquid (easily sold or disposed of without losing value) |
| líquido {adj} [finance] | :: liquid (having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy) |
| líquido amniótico {m} [anatomy] | :: amniotic fluid (fluid that surrounds a developing embryo or fetus) |
| lira {f} | :: lyre (a stringed musical instrument) |
| lira {f} | :: lira (unit of currency) |
| lírica {f} /ˈli.ɾi.kɐ/ | :: lyric |
| lírica {f} | :: lyric poetry |
| lírico {adj} /ˈli.ɾi.ku/ | :: lyrical, lyric |
| lírio {m} /ˈli.ɾju/ | :: lily |
| lírio branco {m} | :: annunciation lily (Lilium candidum, the common white lily) |
| lírio-do-amazonas {m} | :: Amazon lily (Eucharis amazonica, a bulbous plant of South America) |
| lírio-do-mar {m} | :: sea lily (any of several stalked crinoids) |
| lírio do vale {m} | :: alternative spelling of lírio-do-vale |
| lírio-do-vale {m} | :: lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis, a flowering plant with richly fragrant pendant bells) |
| Lisboa {prop} {f} /liʒˈboɐ/ | :: Lisboa (capital city) |
| Lisboa {prop} {f} | :: Lisboa (district) |
| lisboense {adj} | :: Lisboner (of, from or relating to Lisbon) |
| lisboense {mf} | :: Lisbonite; Lisboner (person from Lisbon) |
| lisboês {adj} | :: Lisboner (of, from or relating to Lisbon) |
| lisboês {m} | :: Lisboner; Lisbonite (someone from Lisbon) |
| lisboesa {f} | :: feminine noun of lisboês |
| lisboeta {adj} | :: From Lisbon |
| lisboeta {adj} | :: Of or relating to Lisbon |
| lisboeta {mf} | :: A native of Lisbon |
| lisbonense {adj} | :: Lisboner (of, from or relating to Lisbon) |
| lisbonense {mf} | :: Lisboner; Lisbonite (someone from Lisbon) |
| lisbonesa {f} | :: feminine noun of lisbonês |
| lise {f} [medicine, pathology] | :: lysis (gradual recovery from disease) |
| lise {f} [biochemistry] | :: lysis (destruction of cells) |
| lisencefalia {f} | :: lissencephaly (disorder characterised by the lack of folds and grooves of the brain) |
| lisérgico {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: lysergic |
| lisina {f} | :: lysine |
| liso {adj} /ˈli.zu/ | :: smooth |
| liso {adj} | :: plain |
| liso {adj} | :: flat |
| liso {adj} | :: straight |
| liso {adj} [colloquial] | :: flat-chested (woman) |
| liso {adj} [colloquial] | :: broke |
| lisonja {f} | :: flattery |
| lisonjando {v} | :: gerund of lisonjar |
| lisonjar {v} | :: alternative form of lisonjear |
| lisonjeando {v} | :: gerund of lisonjear |
| lisonjear {v} | :: to flatter |
| lisonjear {v} | :: to butter up |
| lisonjeiro {adj} | :: flattering, complimentary |
| lisossoma {m} | :: alternative form of lisossomo |
| lisossômico {adj} | :: lysosomal |
| lisossomo {m} [cytology] | :: lysosome (digestive organelle) |
| lista {f} /ˈliʃ.tɐ/ | :: list |
| lista de espera {f} | :: waiting list (ordered list of people waiting to obtain a good or service) |
| lista de observação {f} | :: watchlist (list of items requiring special attention) |
| lista de reprodução {f} | :: playlist |
| lista de Swadesh {f} [linguistics] | :: Swadesh list (list of a language’s basic vocabulary) |
| listagem {f} /lis.ˈta.ʒẽj̃/ | :: listing |
| listagem {f} | :: the act of listing |
| listagem {f} [computing] | :: a printout of a program or data set |
| listagem {f} | :: a list |
| lista negra {f} | :: blacklist (list of people or entities to be shunned or banned) |
| listar {vt} | :: to list (to create or recite a list) |
| lista telefónica {f} [European orthography] | :: telephone directory (a listing of telephone subscribers) |
| lista telefônica {f} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of lista telefónica |
| Listenstaine {prop} {m} | :: rare form of Liechtenstein |
| listra {f} | :: stripe (long, straight region of a colour) |
| listrado {adj} | :: striped (having stripes) |
| lisura {f} /liˈzuɾa/ | :: flatness (physical characteristic of being flat) |
| lisura {f} [figuratively] | :: honesty, sincerity |
| litania {f} [religion] | :: litany (prayers recited by a leader alternated with responses from the congregation) |
| litargírio {m} [mineral] | :: litharge |
| liteira {f} | :: litter (platform mounted on two shafts, used for the human-powered transportation of people) |
| literal {adj} | :: literal (understood exactly as written, without additional interpretation) |
| literal {m} [programming] | :: literal (value written in the source code) |
| literalmente {adv} | :: literally, word for word |
| literário {adj} | :: literary |
| literatura {f} [uncountable] /li.tɨ.ɾɐ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/ | :: literature (body of all written works) |
| literatura {f} | :: literature (collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture) |
| literatura {f} | :: literature (all published material in academic journals on a particular subject) |
| litíase {f} [pathology] | :: lithiasis |
| litigar {v} /li.tʃiˈɡa(ɹ)/ | :: to litigate (to contest in law) |
| litigar {v} [figuratively] | :: to contend, to fight |
| litígio {m} [legal] | :: litigation |
| litígio {m} | :: dispute |
| litígio {m} | :: controversy |
| lítio {m} /ˈlitiu/ | :: lithium |
| litisconsórcio {m} | :: joinder |
| litografia {f} | :: lithography (printing method which uses etched plates) |
| litografia {f} | :: lithograph (image produced by lithography) |
| litograficamente {adv} | :: lithographically |
| litopone {m} | :: lithopone |
| litoral {adj} /li.to.ˈɾaw/ | :: coastal |
| litoral {m} | :: beach; coast; coastline |
| litorâneo {adj} [geography] | :: littoral (relating to the seaside) |
| litorina {f} | :: periwinkle (any mollusc of the genus Littorina) |
| litorina {f} [rail transport] | :: railcar (self-propelled railroad wagon) |
| litosfera {f} | :: lithosphere (outermost layer of a rocky planet) |
| litotes {f} [rhetoric] | :: litotes (an understatement employed for rhetoric effect) |
| litro {m} | :: litre; liter [US] |
| litterario {adj} | :: obsolete spelling of literário |
| litteratura {f} | :: obsolete spelling of literatura |
| Little Rock {prop} {f} | :: Little Rock (city/state capital) |
| Lituânia {prop} {f} /li.ˈtwɐ.njɐ/ | :: Lituânia (country) |
| lituânico {m} | :: Lithuanian (Baltic language spoken in Lithuania) |
| lituânio {m} | :: Lithuanian (Baltic language spoken in Lithuania) |
| lituano {adj} | :: Lithuanian (of, from or referring to Lithuania) |
| lituano {m} | :: Lithuanian (person from Lithuania) |
| lituano {m} | :: Lithuanian (Baltic language spoken in Lithuania) |
| liturgia {f} | :: liturgy (a predetermined or prescribed set of rituals) |
| liturgicamente {adv} | :: liturgically (in the manner of liturgy) |
| litúrgico {adj} | :: liturgical |
| liturgista {mf} | :: liturgist (a person knowledgable about liturgy) |
| liturgo {m} | :: liturgist (a person knowledgable about liturgy) |
| Liubliana {prop} {f} | :: Liubliana (capital city) |
| Liverpool {prop} {f} /ˌli.veʁ.ˈpuw/ | :: Liverpool (city/and/metropolitan borough) |
| Lívia {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| lívido {adj} /ˈli.vi.ðu/ | :: livid |
| Livónia {prop} {f} [European orthography] | :: Livónia (historical region) |
| Livônia {prop} {f} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of Livónia |
| livónio {adj} [European orthography] | :: Livonian (pertaining to Livonia or Livonians) |
| livónio {m} [European orthography] | :: Livonian (person from Livonia) |
| livónio {m} [European orthography, uncountable] | :: Livonian (a Finno-Ugric language spoken in Livonia) |
| livônio {adj} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of livónio |
| livônio {m} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of livónio |
| Livorno {prop} {f} | :: Livorno (province/and/city) |
| livramento {m} | :: deliverance (extrication from imprisonment) |
| Livramento de Nossa Senhora {prop} | :: Livramento de Nossa Senhora (municipality) |
| livrar {v} [de] /li.ˈvɾaɾ/ | :: to save |
| livrar {v} [de] | :: to free; to release |
| livrar {v} [de] | :: to exempt |
| livrar {v} [de, .pronominal] | :: to get rid of |
| livrar {v} [de, .pronominal] | :: to escape |
| livraria {f} /li.vɾɐ.ˈɾi.ɐ/ | :: bookshop (a shop that sells books) |
| livrar-se de {v} | :: to get rid of; to dispose of |
| livre {adj} /ˈli.vɾɨ/ | :: free |
| livre {adj} | :: unoccupied |
| livre {adj} | :: clear, open |
| livre-arbítrio {m} [philosophy] | :: free will (ability to choose one’s actions) |
| livre-cambismo {m} | :: free trade (trade free from government interference) |
| livre comércio {m} | :: free trade (trade free from government interference) |
| livreiro {m} /li.ˈvrɐj.ɾu/ | :: book salesman |
| livremente {adv} /ˌlivɾɨˈmẽtɨ/ | :: freely (all senses) |
| livre-pensador {m} | :: freethinker |
| livrete {m} /li.ˈvɾe.t͡ʃi/ | :: booklet (short book) |
| livrete {m} | :: a small notebook |
| livrete {m} [banking] | :: bankbook; passbook (booklet used to record bank transactions) |
| livrete {m} | :: a set of identification documents |
| livreto {m} /li.ˈvɾe.tu/ | :: book (script of a musical) |
| livreyro {m} | :: obsolete spelling of livreiro |
| livro {m} /ˈli.vɾu/ | :: book |
| livro aberto {m} | :: See: pt livro aberto |
| livro aberto {m} [idiomatic] | :: open book (thing easily interpreted) |
| Livro das Lamentações {prop} {m} [book of the bible] | :: Lamentations (a book of the Bible) |
| livro de frases {m} | :: phrase book (book with translations of everyday expressions and vocabulary) |
| Livro de Mórmon {prop} {m} [Mormonism] | :: Book of Mormon (one of the sacred works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) |
| livro de texto {m} | :: textbook (formal manual of instruction) |
| livro de visitas {m} | :: guest book (ledger for visitors to leave comments about an establishment) |
| livro didático {m} | :: textbook (formal manual of instruction) |
| livro digital {m} | :: e-book (electronic book) |
| livro eletrónico {m} [European orthography] | :: e-book (electronic book) |
| livro eletrônico {m} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of livro eletrónico |
| livro falado {m} | :: audiobook |
| livro-texto {m} | :: textbook |
| lixa {f} /ˈli.ʃɐ/ | :: sandpaper (paper coated with abrasive material) |
| lixa {f} | :: nail file (small file used to file fingernails and toenails) |
| lixa {f} | :: any dogfish shark characterised by rough skin |
| lixando {v} | :: gerund of lixar |
| lixão {m} | :: dump; landfill (a place where garbage is left) |
| lixar {vt} | :: to sand (with sandpaper) |
| lixar {vt} | :: to polish |
| lixar {v} [colloquial] | :: to screw up, to ruin |
| lixar {vp} [colloquial] | :: to get screwed up, to be in difficulties |
| Lixboa {prop} {f} | :: obsolete form of Lisboa |
| lixeira {f} | :: rubbish bin; trash can; garbage can (container for waste) |
| lixeira {f} [computing] | :: recycle bin (storage location for deleted files) |
| lixeira {f} | :: female equivalent of lixeiro |
| lixeiro {m} | :: garbage collector (person who collects and disposes of waste) |
| lixívia {f} | :: lye (caustic alkaline solution) |
| lixiviação {f} | :: lixiviation, leaching |
| lixiviando {v} | :: gerund of lixiviar |
| lixiviar {v} | :: to lixiviate, leach |
| lixo {m} /ˈli.ʃu/ | :: garbage; waste; rubbish (useless material to be discarded) |
| lixo {m} | :: rubbish bin (small container for waste) |
| lixo {m} [colloquial] | :: crap (something of poor quality) |
| lixo electrónico {m} | :: superseded spelling of lixo eletrónico |
| lixo eletrónico {m} [European orthography, Internet] | :: spam (unsolicited bulk electronic messages) |
| lixo eletrónico {m} [European orthography] | :: See: pt lixo eletrónico |
| lixo eletrônico {m} [Brazilian orthography] | :: alternative form of lixo eletrónico |
| lixo nuclear {m} | :: radioactive waste (waste containing radioactive chemical elements) |
| Ljubljana {prop} {f} | :: alternative spelling of Liubliana |
| lo {pron} /ˈlu/ | :: alternative form of o |
| loa {f} /ˈlo.ɐ/ | :: praise |
| loa {f} [usually, in the plural] | :: carol |
| lôa {f} | :: obsolete spelling of loa |
| loar {v} | :: alternative form of louvar |
| loba {f} | :: feminine noun of lobo, a she-wolf |
| loba {f} [pejorative slang] | :: a bitch, a slut: a sexually promiscuous woman |
| loba {f} [archaic, ecclesiastical] | :: a wide cassock worn by Portuguese clergy |
| lobacho {m} | :: wolf cub (young wolf) |
| lobato {m} | :: wolf cub (young wolf) |
| lobby {m} [politics] /ˈlɔ.bi/ | :: lobby (group of people who try to influence public officials) |
| lobby {m} | :: lobby (reception area of a large building) |
| lobby {m} [Internet] | :: lobby (virtual area where users find other users to a start a private conversation or video-game match with) |
| lóbi {m} | :: lobby |
| lobinho {m} | :: diminutive of lobo |
| lobismulher {f} [rare, nonce word] | :: a female werewolf |
| lobisomem {m} {mf} /ˌlo.bi.ˈzɔ.mẽj̃/ | :: werewolf (person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human) |
| lobista {mf} /lo.ˈbis.ta/ | :: lobbyist (a person who for remuneration reattempts to persuade politicians) |
| lobo {m} /ˈlo.βu/ | :: wolf (a wild canid) |
| lobo {m} [anatomy] /ˈlɔ.βu/ | :: lobe (division of the brain) |
| lôbo {m} | :: obsolete spelling of lobo |
| lobo cinzento {m} | :: grey wolf (Canis lupus, a species of wolf found in the northern hemisphere) |
| lobo-da-tasmânia {m} | :: thylacine (extinct carnivorous marsupial) |
| lobo do mar {m} | :: seadog (experienced sailor) |
| lobo em pele de cordeiro {m} [idiomatic] | :: wolf in sheep's clothing (a disguised danger) |
| lobo-guará {m} | :: maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus, a canid of South America) |
| Lobo Mau {prop} {m} | :: Big Bad Wolf (any fictional evil wolf that appears in fairy tales or fables) |
| lobo mexicano {m} | :: Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi, a rare subspecies of the grey wolf) |
| lobo parietal {m} [anatomy] | :: parietal lobe (one of the lobes of the brain) |
| lobotomização {f} | :: lobotomization/lobotomisation |
| lobotomizar {v} | :: to lobotomize [North America], to lobotomise [UK, Australia] |
| lôbrego {adj} | :: lugubrious (gloomy) |
| lobrigando {v} | :: gerund of lobrigar |
| lobrigar {v} | :: to glimpse |
| lobular {adj} | :: lobular (of or relating to a lobule) |
| lóbulo {m} | :: ear lobe (lower part of the ear) |
| locação {f} | :: tenancy |
| locador {m} | :: hirer, lessor (person who leases something to another person) |
| locadora {f} | :: rental (a business that rents products or services) |
| local {adj} /lu.ˈkaɫ/ | :: local |
| local {m} | :: premises, rooms |
| local {m} | :: site |
| local {m} | :: place, location |
| localidade {f} | :: locality (area considered the site of certain activities) |
| localisar {v} | :: superseded spelling of localizar |
| localização {f} | :: location |
| localização {f} | :: placement |
| localização {f} | :: localization |
| localizado {adj} | :: located |
| localizando {v} | :: gerund of localizar |
| localizar {v} | :: to locate |
| localizar {v} | :: to localize |
| localizar {v} | :: to circumscribe |
| localizar-se {vr} | :: to lie (to be situated in a location) |
| localmente {adv} /lukaɫˈmẽtɨ/ | :: locally (with respect to a place) |
| locando {v} | :: gerund of locar |
| loção {f} | :: lotion (ointment to be rubbed on the skin) |
| locar {v} | :: To lease, hire |
| locar {v} [obsolete] | :: To locate |
| locatário {m} | :: tenant |
| locativo {m} [grammar] | :: locative (grammatical case expressing the place where or the time during which something occurs) |
| locomoção {f} | :: locomotion (ability to move from one location to another) |
| locomotiva {f} /lokumuˈtivɐ/ | :: locomotive, engine (railway) |
| locomotiva-tênder {f} | :: tank engine (steam locomotive train which carries its own fuel and water in the same unit) |
| locomotor {adj} | :: locomotive (relating to locomotion) |
| locomotora {f} | :: locomotive (the power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons) |
| locução {f} [grammar] | :: phrase (group of words that functions as a single unit) |
| locução prepositiva {f} | :: phrasal preposition |
| locupletando {v} | :: gerund of locupletar |
| locupletar {v} | :: to enrich |
| locupletar {v} | :: to become rich |
| locutor {m} | :: announcer; commentator (one who makes announcements or comments on radio or TV) |
| locutora {f} | :: female equivalent of locutor |
| lodaçal {m} | :: wetland, marsh, swamp |
| lódão {m} | :: hackberry (shrub of the genus Celtis) |
| lodeira {f} | :: wetland, marsh, swamp |
| lodeiro {m} | :: wetland, marsh, swamp |
| lodo {m} /ˈlo.ðu/ | :: sludge, slime |
| lodo {m} | :: mud |
| lodo {m} | :: silt |
| lodoso {adj} | :: muddy (full of mud) |
| Lodz {prop} {f} | :: Lodz (voivodeship) |
| Lodz {prop} {f} | :: Lodz (capital city) |
| loess {m} [geology] | :: loess (accumulation of wind-blown sediment) |
| loesse {m} | :: alternative form of loess |
| loganberry {f} | :: loganberry (raspberry-blackberry hybrid) |
| logar {vp} [computing, colloquial in Portugal] | :: to log in (to access a computer system by entering the username and password) |
| logar {m} | :: obsolete spelling of lugar |
| logaritmo {m} | :: logarithm (for a number x, the power to which a given base number must be raised in order to obtain x) |
| logaritmo natural {m} [mathematics] | :: natural logarithm (logarithm in base e) |
| -logia {suffix} [sciences] /lo.ˈʒi.ɐ/ | :: -logy (forms the names of scientific fields of study) |
| lógia {f} [architecture] /ˈlɔ.ʒjɐ/ | :: loggia |
| lógica {f} /ˈlɔ.ʒi.kɐ/ | :: logic |
| lógica fuzzy {f} [computing] | :: fuzzy logic (logic based on the notion of non-binary membership of sets) |
| logicamente {adv} | :: logically (in a logical manner) |
| -lógico {suffix} | :: -logical; -logic (forms adjectives relating to scientific fields that end in -logia) |
| lógico {adj} /ˈlɔ.ʒi.ku/ | :: logical (in agreement with the principles of logic) |
| lógico {m} | :: logician |
| lógico {interj} | :: of course (asserts that an associated phrase is rather obvious or evident) |
| login {m} [computing] /lɔ.ˈɡĩ/ | :: login (the act of logging into a system) |
| login {m} [computing] | :: username (name that identifies an user of a computer system) |
| -logista {suffix} | :: -logist (person who studies or is an expert in a given field) |
| logística {f} /lo.ˈʒis.t͡ʃi.ka/ | :: logistics (planning and implementing the flow of goods and services) |
| logístico {adj} | :: logistic (relating to the transportation of goods or supplies) |
| -logo {suffix} [sciences] /lo.ɡu/ | :: -logist; -logue (forms the names of professionals and scholars working in a given scientific field) |
| logo {adv} /ˈlɔ.ɣu/ | :: soon (in a short while) |
| logo {conj} [formal] | :: thus, therefore (for this reason) |
| logo {m} /ˈlo.ɣu/ | :: logo (a logotype) |
| logogrifo {m} | :: logogriph (word puzzle in which the clues are in verse) |
| logo que {conj} | :: as soon as |
| Logos {prop} {m} [philosophy] /ˈlo.ɡus/ | :: Logos (rational principle in Ancient Greek philosophy) |
| Logos {prop} {m} [Christianity] | :: Logos (the word of God) |
| logotipo {m} /ˌlo.ɡo.ˈt͡ʃi.po/ | :: logotype (symbol used by organization, logo) |
| logótipo {m} | :: alternative form of logotipo |
| logradouro {m} | :: patio (public open space) |
| lograr {vt} | :: to acquire, obtain |
| lograr {v} [em] | :: to deceive |
| lograr {vt} | :: to achieve |
| lograr {vi} | :: to succeed |
| logro {m} /ˈlo.ɡɾu/ | :: deceit, fraud |
| loiça {f} /ˈloj.sɐ/ | :: alternative form of louça |
| Loire {prop} {m} | :: Loire (river) |
| loirinha {f} | :: diminutive of loira |
| loiro {adj} /ˈloj.ɾu/ | :: alternative form of louro |
| loiro {m} | :: alternative form of louro |
| loisa {f} | :: obsolete form of lousa |
| loja {f} /ˈlɔ.ʒɐ/ | :: shop |
| loja {f} | :: hut |
| loja de conveniência {f} | :: convenience store (a small retail store) |
| loja de departamento {f} | :: department store (store containing many departments) |
| loja dos trezentos {f} [Portugal, dated] /ˈlɔ.ʒɐ ˈðuʃ tɾɨ.ˈzẽ.tuʃ/ | :: dollar store, pound shop |
| lojista {mf} /luˈʒiʃtɐ/ | :: shopkeeper |
| LOL {interj} [internet slang, text messaging] | :: LOL |
| lolardo {m} [Christianity, historical] /lo.ˈlaʁ.du/ | :: Lollard (follower of Lollardism) |
| Lolland {prop} {f} | :: Lolland (island) |
| loló {f} {m} [Brazil] | :: a street drug comprising an aerosol of chloroform in ether solution, which can cause cardiac arrest |
| lombada {f} | :: A long bump |
| lombada {f} | :: The back of a book or of cattle |
| lombada {f} [Brazil] | :: speed bump |
| Lombardia {prop} {f} /ˌlõ.baʁ.ˈd͡ʒi.ɐ/ | :: Lombardia (region) |
| lombardo {m} /lõˈbaʁ.du/ | :: Lombard (member of a Germanic people who settled in Italy during the Dark Ages) |
| lombardo {m} | :: Lombard (native of Lombardy) |
| lombardo {m} [uncountable] | :: Lombard (Romance language spoken in Lombardy) |
| lombardo {adj} | :: Lombard (of, from or relating to Lombardy) |
| lombo {m} /ˈlõ.bu/ | :: back (the rear of body) |
| lombo {m} | :: loin (meat) |
| lombriga {f} | :: giant roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides, a parasitic roundworm) |
| Lomé {prop} {f} | :: Lomé (capital city) |
| lona {f} | :: canvas (a type of coarse cloth) |
| London {prop} {f} | :: London (city) |
| London {prop} {f} [relatively rare] | :: London (capital city) |
| Londres {prop} {f} /ˈlõ.dɾɨʃ/ | :: Londres (capital city) |
| londrino {m} | :: Londoner (person from London) |
| londrino {adj} [relational] | :: London (of, from or pertaining to London in the UK) |
| longa {f} [grammar] /ˈlõ.ɡɐ/ | :: long syllable |
| longa {f} [music] | :: long (a note formerly used in music, twice the length of a breve) |
| longa {f} {m} | :: clipping of longa-metragem |
| longamente {adv} | :: long, lengthily |
| longamente {adv} | :: extensively |
| longa-metragem {f} {m} [cinema] | :: feature film |
| longan {m} | :: longan (fruit of the longan tree) |
| longana {f} | :: longan (Dimocarpus longan, a tree of southern Asia) |
| longana {f} | :: longan (the fruit of the longan tree) |
| longanimidade {f} /lõ.ɡɐ.ni.mi.ˈda.d(ʒ)i/ | :: longanimity, generosity, magnanimity |
| longe {adv} /ˈlõ.ʒɨ/ | :: far, a long way |
| longe {adj} | :: distant, faraway |
| longe dos olhos, longe do coração {proverb} | :: out of sight, out of mind (something not nearby is forgotten) |
| longevidade {f} | :: longevity |
| longevo {adj} | :: long-lived (having a long lifespan) |
| longinquidade {f} | :: remoteness (the condition of being remote) |
| longínquo {adj} /lõ.ˈʒĩ.kwu/ | :: remote (at a distance) |
| longitude {f} [geography] /lõ.ʒi.ˈtu.ðɨ/ | :: Angular distance measured west or east of the Greenwich Meridian |
| longitude {f} [geography, astronomy] | :: An imaginary line perpendicular to the equator, passing through the North Pole and South Pole |
| long neck {f} /ˌlõɡ.ˈnɛ.ki/ | :: longneck (beer bottle with a long neck) |
| longo {adj} /ˈlõ.ɡu/ | :: long |
| Longyearbyen {prop} {f} | :: Longyearbyen (village/capital) |
| lontra {f} /ˈlontɾɐ/ | :: otter |
| Lontra {prop} | :: Lontra (municipality) |
| lontra-gigante {f} | :: giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) |
| Lontras {prop} | :: Lontras (municipality) |
| loop {m} [computing] | :: loop (repeating sequence of instructions) |
| loop {m} | :: loop (aircraft manoeuvre) |
| looping {m} | :: loop (aircraft manoeuvre) |
| Lopes {prop} {mf} /ˈlɔ.pɨʃ/ | :: surname |
| Lopo {prop} | :: given name.[1] |
| loquacidade {f} | :: loquaciousness (the quality of being loquacious) |
| loquacidade {f} | :: talkativeness (the quality of being talkative) |
| loquaz {adj} | :: loquacious; talkative; chatty |
| loquete {m} | :: alternative form of aloquete |
| lorandita {f} [mineral] | :: lorandite |
| lorde {m} | :: lord (titled nobleman) |
| Lorena {prop} {f} | :: Lorena (region/and/former duchy) |
| Lorena {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| Lorena {prop} {f} | :: Lorena (municipality) |
| lorota {f} [slang] | :: lie; bullshit; nonsense |
| lorpa {adj} | :: stupid, imbecile, idiotic |
| lorpa {adj} | :: rude, impolite |
| lorpa {mf} | :: an idiot, a fool |
| lorpa {mf} | :: peasant; someone who lives in the countryside |
| los {pron} /luʃ/ | :: alternative form of o |
| Los Angeles {prop} {f} /loz ˈɐ̃.ʒe.lis/ | :: Los Angeles (large city) |
| Los Ângeles {prop} {f} [uncommon] | :: alternative spelling of Los Angeles |
| losango {m} /lo.ˈzɐ̃.ɡu/ | :: rhombus (a parallelogram having all sides of equal length) |
| losango {m} [heraldiccharge] | :: lozenge |
| losângulo {m} [proscribed] | :: rhombus (parallelogram having all sides of equal length) |
| lotação {f} | :: filling, stocking |
| lotação {f} | :: blending (of wine, prior to bottling) |
| lotação {f} | :: capacity (of a place, vessel etc) |
| lotação {f} [Brazil] | :: bus (public transport) |
| lotação esgotada {f} | :: full house (a situation in which the maximum capacity of a place is filled with people) |
| lotado {adj} /lu.ˈta.ðu/ | :: full |
| lotado {adj} | :: crowded |
| lotar {v} /lu.ˈtaɾ/ | :: alternative form of lotear |
| lotar {vt} | :: to crowd (to fill with people) |
| lotar {vi} | :: to become filled with people |
| lotar {vt} | :: to pack; to cram (to fill as much as possible) |
| lotar {vi} | :: to become packed, crammed |
| lotaria {f} | :: lottery |
| lote {m} /ˈlɔ.t͡ʃi/ | :: lot |
| lote {m} | :: plot (of land) |
| lote {m} | :: batch |
| lotear {vt} /luˈtjaɾ/ | :: to distribute into lots |
| loteria {f} | :: lottery |
| lotérica {f} | :: short for casa lotérica |
| lotérico {adj} | :: of or relating to a lottery |
| lótus {m} /ˈlɔtuʃ/ | :: lotus (an aquatic flowering plant of the genus Nelumbo) |
| louça {f} /ˈlow.sɐ/ | :: dishware, dishes; crockery |
| louça {f} | :: china (vessels made of pottery etc) |
| loucamente {adv} | :: madly |
| louçania {f} | :: decoration |
| louçania {f} | :: elegance, gracefulness, beauty |
| louco {adj} /ˈlo(w).ku/ | :: crazy, mad, insane |
| louco {m} | :: a madman, a crazy person |
| loucura {f} [uncountable] /lo(w).ˈku.ɾɐ/ | :: insanity, madness |
| loucura {f} | :: an insane act |
| Loulé {prop} /loˈlɛ/ | :: Loulé (city/and/municipality) |
| Lourdes {prop} | :: given name |
| Lourdes {prop} | :: Lourdes (municipality) |
| loureiro {m} /lo(w).ɾɐj.ɾu/ | :: bay (Laurus nobilis, a shrub of the Mediterranean) |
| Lourenço {prop} {m} /lo(w).ˈɾẽ.su/ | :: given name |
| Loures {prop} /ˈlowɾɨʃ/ | :: Loures (city/and/municipality) |
| Lourinhã {prop} {f} /loɾiˈɲɐ̃/ | :: Lourinhã (village/and/municipality) |
| louro {m} /ˈlo(w).ɾu/ | :: blond (fair haired person) |
| louro {m} | :: blond (pale golden brown colour) |
| louro {m} | :: laurel (plant) |
| louro {m} | :: laurel leaf, used as food |
| louro {adj} | :: blonde (having blonde hair) |
| louro {adj} | :: blonde (blonde coloured) |
| louro {m} | :: parrot |
| lousa {f} /ˈlo(w).zɐ/ | :: board (blackboard, whiteboard etc) |
| lousa {f} | :: flagstone (piece of rock or stone used for paving or roofing) |
| lousa {f} [Portugal] | :: slate (rock) |
| Lousã {prop} {f} /lowˈzɐ̃/ | :: Lousã (village/and/municipality) |
| Lousada {prop} {f} /lowˈzaðɐ/ | :: Lousada (village/and/municipality) |
| louva-a-deus {m} | :: praying mantis |
| louvar {v} /lo(w).ˈvaɾ/ | :: to praise |
| louvável {adj} | :: praiseworthy; laudable (deserving praise) |
| Louveira {prop} | :: Louveira (municipality) |
| louvor {m} [uncountable] /low.ˈvoɾ/ | :: praise; worship (especially of a religious entity) |
| louvor {m} | :: a commendation; a praise |
| Lovaina {prop} {f} | :: Lovaina (city/regional capital) |
| LP {m} | :: LP; long-play (33 rpm vinyl record) |
| LP {f} | :: initialism of língua portuguesa |
| LSD {n} | :: LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) |
| lua {f} /ˈlu.ɐ/ | :: moon (largest natural satellite of planet Earth) |
| lua {f} [astronomy] | :: moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet) |
| Lua {prop} {f} | :: Moon (sole natural satellite of the Earth) |
| Lua {prop} {f} | :: Lua (lightweight programming language) |
| lua cheia {f} /lu.ɐ.ˈʃɐj.ɐ/ | :: full moon |
| lua de mel {f} | :: honeymoon (period of time immediately following a marriage) |
| lua de mel {f} | :: honeymoon (trip taken by a newly married couple during this period) |
| lua-de-mel {f} | :: obsolete spelling of lua de mel |
| lua minguante {f} | :: waning moon (the moon when it appears smaller each night) |
| Luana {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| Luanda {prop} {f} /ˈlwɐ̃.dɐ/ | :: Luanda (capital city) |
| lua nova {f} /lu.ɐ.ˈnɔ.vɐ/ | :: new moon |
| luar {m} /ˈlwaɾ/ | :: moonlight |
| luau {m} | :: luau (elaborate Hawaiian feast) |
| lubrificação {f} | :: lubrication (the application of lubricants) |
| lubrificante {m} | :: lubricant |
| lubrificar {v} | :: to lubricate |
| Lucarelli {prop} {mf} | :: surname |
| Lucas {prop} {m} /ˈlu.kɐs/ | :: given name Lucas |
| Lucas {prop} {m} [biblical character] | :: Luke (early Christian evangelist) |
| Lucas {prop} {m} [book of the bible] | :: Luke (a book of the New Testament) |
| Lucélia {prop} | :: Lucélia (municipality) |
| lucense {adj} | :: Of or pertaining to Lugo |
| lucense {mf} | :: Someone from Lugo |
| lucerna {f} /lu.ˈsɛɾ.nɐ/ | :: alternative form of luzerna |
| lúcia {f} [botany] | :: a plant of genus Lucya, family Rubiaceae |
| Lúcia {prop} {f} /ˈlu.sjɐ/ | :: given name |
| Luciana {prop} {f} | :: given name, feminine form of Luciano |
| Luciano {prop} {m} /lu.ˈsjɐ.nu/ | :: given name |
| Luciano {prop} {m} [philosophy] | :: Lucian (ancient Syrian sophist) |
| Lucianópolis {prop} | :: Lucianópolis (municipality) |
| lucidez {f} | :: lucidity (property of being lucid) |
| lúcido {adj} | :: lucid; clear (easily understood) |
| lúcido {adj} | :: lucid; sane (mentally rational) |
| lúcido {adj} | :: lucid (bright, luminous, translucent or transparent) |
| Lúcifer {prop} {m} [Christianity] | :: Lucifer (name of the Devil) |
| luciferismo {m} [religion] | :: Luciferianism (belief system that venerates the essential characteristics identified with Lucifer) |
| lucina {f} [poetic] | :: The Moon |
| lúcio {m} | :: northern pike (Esox lucius, a large freshwater of Europe) |
| lucioperca {f} | :: zander (Sander lucioperca, an European freshwater fish) |
| Lucknow {prop} {f} | :: Lucknow (state capital) |
| Luçon {prop} {f} | :: alternative form of Luzon |
| lucrar {v} [business] /luˈkɾaɾ/ | :: to profit (to earn a profit) |
| lucrativo {adj} | :: profitable (producing profit) |
| Lucrécio {prop} {m} | :: given name |
| lucro {m} /ˈlu.kɾu/ | :: profit; benefit |
| lucro {m} [economics] | :: profit (positive income minus expenditures) |
| lucta {f} | :: obsolete spelling of luta |
| luctador {adj} | :: obsolete spelling of lutador |
| luctador {m} | :: obsolete spelling of lutador |
| luctar {v} | :: obsolete spelling of lutar |
| lucto {m} | :: obsolete spelling of luto |
| lucubração {f} | :: alternative form of elucubração |
| lúcuma {f} | :: lucmo |
| ludibriar {v} | :: to hoodwink (to deceive by showing false strength, reality or influence) |
| ludibriar {v} | :: to cheat (manage to avoid something) |
| ludíbrio {m} | :: mockery; ridicule; derision |
| ludíbrio {m} | :: laughing stock (object of ridicule) |
| lúdico {adj} | :: ludic; playful (of or pertaining to play) |
| ludismo {m} [historical] | :: Luddism (opposition to the Industrial Revolution by textile workers) |
| ludismo {m} [by extension, pejorative] | :: Luddism (opposition to technological progress) |
| ludista {mf} | :: Luddite (19th century textile worker who destroyed machinery) |
| ludista {mf} [by extension, pejorative] | :: Luddite (one opposing technological advancement) |
| ludopédio {m} [formal] | :: football; soccer (team sport) |
| ludovicense {adj} | :: relating to São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil |
| ludovicense {mf} | :: someone from São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil |
| ludreiro {m} | :: wetland, marsh, swamp |
| lufa {f} | :: gust |
| lufa {f} [figurative] | :: bustle |
| lufada {f} | :: gust (strong, abrupt rush of wind) |
| lufa-lufa {f} [colloquial] | :: bustle |
| lufar {v} | :: to blow |
| Lugansk {prop} {f} | :: Lugansk (oblast/and/separatist state) |
| Lugansk {prop} {f} | :: Lugansk (city/administrative center) |
| lugar {m} /lu.ˈɣaɾ/ | :: place (location or position) |
| lugar {m} | :: available room |
| lugar {m} | :: place (position within a rank) |
| lugar {m} | :: [uncountable] opportunity (chance for advancement, progress or profit) |
| lugar {m} | :: a reserved or available seat |
| lugar {m} | :: a position in a book, song or film |
| lugar-comum {m} | :: commonplace (platitude or cliché) |
| lugar-comum {m} | :: commonplace (something that is ordinary) |
| lugarejo {m} | :: hamlet |
| Lugar Nenhum {prop} {m} [idiomatic] | :: middle of nowhere (remote place; a place lacking population, interesting things or defining characteristics) |
| luge {m} [uncountable] /luːʒ/ | :: luge (sport) |
| luge {m} [countable] | :: luge (sled used in the sport) |
| lugre {m} | :: siskin (small European finch) |
| lúgubre {adj} | :: sombre; gloomy; sinister |
| Luís {prop} {m} /luˈiʃ/ | :: given name |
| Luísa {prop} {f} | :: given name, feminine form of Luís |
| Luís Antônio {prop} | :: Luís Antônio (municipality) |
| Luisburgo {prop} | :: Luisburgo (municipality) |
| Luis Eduardo Magalhães {prop} | :: Luis Eduardo Magalhães (municipality) |
| Luisiana {prop} {f} {m} | :: Luisiana (state) |
| Luislândia {prop} | :: Luislândia (municipality) |
| luita {f} [obsolete or dialectal] | :: alternative form of luta |
| luitador {adj} [obsolete or dialectal] | :: alternative spelling of lutador |
| luitador {m} [obsolete or dialectal] | :: alternative spelling of lutador |
| luitar {v} [obsolete or dialectal] | :: alternative spelling of lutar |
| luito {m} [obsolete or dialectal] | :: alternative form of luto |
| Luiz {prop} {m} | :: given name. Masculine of Luiza |
| Luiza {prop} {f} | :: given name, feminine form of Luiz |
| Luiz Alves {prop} | :: Luiz Alves (municipality) |
| Luiziânia {prop} | :: Luiziânia (municipality) |
| lula {f} /ˈlu.la/ | :: squid (sea animal) |
| Lula {prop} {m} [Northeast Brazil] | :: A pet form for Luís or Luiz |
| lulismo {m} | :: Lulism (political ideology of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) |
| lulopetismo {m} [Brazil, politics, colloquial] /ˌlu.lo.pe.ˈt͡ʃiz.mu/ | :: the political practices of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party (Brazil) |
| Lulopetismo {m} | :: alternative case form of lulopetismo |
| lumbago {m} [pathology] | :: lumbago (pain in the lower back) |
| lume {m} /ˈlu.mɨ/ | :: flame, fire (to cook or keep oneself warm) |
| lume {m} [anatomy] | :: lumen |
| lúmen {m} [physics] | :: lumen (SI-unit of luminous flux) |
| lúmen {m} [anatomy] | :: lumen (the space within tubular organ) |
| Luminárias {prop} | :: Luminárias (municipality) |
| luminescência {f} | :: luminescence |
| luminescente {adj} | :: luminescent |
| luminosidade {f} | :: luminosity |
| luminoso {adj} /lu.mi.ˈno.zu/ | :: luminous |
| lunar {adj} /luˈnaɾ/ | :: lunar |
| lunar {m} | :: mole, birthmark |
| lunática {f} | :: feminine noun of lunático |
| lunático {m} /luˈnatiku/ | :: lunatic |
| lunático {adj} | :: lunatic |
| Luneburg {prop} {f} | :: alternative form of Luneburgo |
| Lüneburg {prop} {f} | :: alternative form of Luneburgo |
| Luneburgo {prop} {f} | :: Luneburgo (town/non-city capital) |
| luneta {f} | :: spyglass (portable telescope) |
| luo {m} | :: Luo (member of a tribal group in eastern Africa) |
| luo {m} | :: Luo (a language spoken by the Luo people) |
| lupa {f} /ˈlu.pɐ/ | :: magnifying glass |
| lupanar {m} | :: brothel (house of prostitution) |
| Lupércio {prop} | :: Lupércio (municipality) |
| lúpulo {m} [botany] /ˈlu.pu.lu/ | :: hop (plant whose flowers are used in ale brewing, Humulus lupulus) |
| lúpus {m} [pathology] | :: lupus (an autoimmune disease) |
| lusa {f} | :: female equivalent of luso |
| Lusácia {prop} {f} | :: Lusácia (historical region) |
| Lusaka {prop} {f} | :: Lusaka (capital city) |
| lusco {adj} | :: one-eyed |
| lusco {adj} | :: cross-eyed |
| lusco {adj} | :: blind |
| lusco-fusco {m} /luʃkuˈfuʃku/ | :: twilight |
| lusco-fusco {m} | :: nightfall |
| Lusitânia {prop} {f} /lu.zi.ˈtɐ.njɐ/ | :: Lusitânia (ancient kingdom/and/province) |
| Lusitânia {prop} {f} [poetic] | :: Lusitânia (country) |
| lusitânico {adj} [historical] | :: Lusitanian (of or relating to the pre-Roman Lusitanian people) |
| lusitânico {adj} [poetic] | :: Portuguese (of or relating to Portugal) |
| lusitânico {adj} [poetic] | :: Portuguese (of or relating to the Portuguese language) |
| lusitano {m} [historical] /ˌlu.zi.ˈtɐ.nu/ | :: Lusitanian (member of ancient Lusitania or its people) |
| lusitano {m} [uncountable] | :: Lusitanian (the extinct language spoken by the Lusitani) |
| lusitano {m} [poetic] | :: Portuguese (person from Portugal) |
| lusitano {adj} [historical] | :: Lusitanian (of the ancient Lusitania or its people) |
| lusitano {adj} | :: of the Lusitanian language |
| lusitano {adj} [poetic] | :: of Portugal |
| lusitano {adj} [poetic] | :: of the Portuguese language |
| luso- {prefix} /ˈlu.zɔ/ | :: Luso- |
| luso {adj} /ˈlu.zu/ | :: Lusitanian (Of or pertaining to ancient Roman province of Lusitania, its people or culture) |
| luso {adj} | :: Portuguese (Of or pertaining to Portugal, its people or culture) |
| luso {m} | :: Lusitanian (A native or inhabitant of ancient Lusitania) |
| luso {m} | :: Portuguese (A native or inhabitant of Portugal) |
| Luso {prop} {m} [Roman god] /ˈlu.zu/ | :: Lusus (Roman god; supposed son or companion of Bacchus) |
| Luso {prop} {m} | :: Luso (village/and/parish) |
| lusofobia {f} /lu.zɔ.fu.ˈβi.ɐ/ | :: Lusophobia (hatred or aversion towards the Portuguese) |
| lusofonia {f} | :: Lusosphere; Lusophony (places where Portuguese is spoken, taken as a whole) |
| lusófono {adj} [of a person] | :: Portuguese-speaking, Lusophone |
| lusófono {adj} [of a place] | :: Portuguese-speaking |
| lusófono {m} | :: Lusophone, a Portuguese-speaker |
| lusque-fusque {m} | :: alternative form of lusco-fusco |
| lustral {adj} | :: lustral (relating to ritual purification) |
| lustrar {v} | :: to shine; to polish |
| lustre {m} /ˈluʃ.tɾɨ/ | :: chandelier |
| lustro {m} | :: lustrum; five-year period |
| lustroso {adj} | :: glossy; lustrous (having a reflective surface) |
| luta {f} /ˈlu.tɐ/ | :: fight (physical conflict between two parties) |
| luta {f} | :: fight; striving (great effort in pursuing something) |
| luta de classes {f} [sociology] | :: class struggle (struggle between social classes) |
| lutador {adj} /lu.tɐ.ˈðoɾ/ | :: Who fights |
| lutador {m} | :: fighter, combatant |
| lutar {v} [em] /lu.ˈtaɾ/ | :: to fight (in) (participate in a conflict) |
| lutar {v} [com, contra] | :: to fight against (participate in a conflict against an enemy) |
| lutar {v} [contra] | :: to fight; to struggle against (try to stop something) |
| lutar {v} [por] | :: to fight (for); to strive (for); to struggle (try to obtain something) |
| lutar {v} [contra] | :: to struggle (against) (attempt to counteract a force) |
| Lutécia {prop} {f} | :: Lutécia (ancient town) |
| Lutécia {prop} {f} | :: Lutécia (municipality) |
| lutécio {m} | :: lutetium (chemical element) |
| lúteo {adj} | :: yellowish; yellow with a tinge or orange or red |
| luteranismo {m} | :: Lutheranism (branch of Christianity developed by Martin Luther) |
| luterano {adj} /ˌlu.te.ˈɾɐ.no/ | :: Lutheran (related to the Lutheran church) |
| luterano {m} | :: Lutheran (member of the Lutheran church) |
| luteria {f} | :: lutherie (the craft of making musical instruments) |
| lutherano {adj} | :: obsolete spelling of luterano |
| lutherano {m} | :: obsolete spelling of luterano |
| lutiê {mf} | :: luthier (person who makes or repairs stringed wooden musical instruments) |
| lutinha {f} /lu.ˈt͡ʃi.ɲɐ/ | :: diminutive of luta |
| luto {m} /ˈlu.tu/ | :: mourning (sorrow over someone’s death) |
| luva {f} [clothing] /ˈlu.vɐ/ | :: glove |
| luva {f} | :: type of sleeve for connecting pipes |
| luva {f} [in the plural, figuratively] | :: tip; bribe |
| luva de boxe {f} [boxing] | :: boxing glove (padded mitten worn in boxing) |
| luva de cozinha {f} | :: oven glove (glove designed to carry hot objects) |
| luva de forno {f} | :: oven glove (glove designed to carry hot objects) |
| luvaria {f} /ˌlu.va.ˈɾi.ɐ/ | :: glove shop |
| lux {m} | :: lux (the derived unit of illuminance) |
| luxação {f} [medicine] | :: dislocation; luxation (dislocating of an organ from its proper place, especially a bone from a joint) |
| Luxemburgo {prop} {m} /lu.ʃẽ.ˈbuɾ.ɣu/ | :: Luxemburgo (country) |
| Luxemburgo {prop} {?} | :: Luxemburgo (capital city) |
| luxemburguês {adj} /ˌlu.ʃẽ.buɾ.ˈɡe(j)s/ | :: Luxembourgish (of Luxembourg) |
| luxemburguês {m} | :: Luxembourger (citizen of Luxembourg) |
| luxemburguês {m} | :: Luxembourgish (language of Luxembourg) |
| luxemburguesa {f} | :: female equivalent of luxemburguês |
| luxemburguez {m} | :: obsolete spelling of luxemburguês |
| luxemburguez {adj} | :: obsolete spelling of luxemburguês |
| luxo {m} [uncountable] /ˈlu.ʃu/ | :: extravagance; prodigality |
| luxo {m} | :: luxury (something pleasant but unnecessary) |
| luxuosamente {adv} | :: luxuriously |
| luxuoso {adj} | :: luxurious |
| luxuoso {adj} | :: stately |
| luxúria {f} /luˈʃuɾjɐ/ | :: lust (strong desire, especially of a sexual nature) |
| luxurioso {adj} | :: lustful (full of lust) |
| Luys {prop} {m} | :: given name, archaic variant of Luís |
| luz {f} /luʃ/ | :: light (medium within which vision is possible) |
| luz {f} | :: light; light source (object that emits light) |
| luz {f} | :: [figurative] light; enlightenment (knowledge about things as they really are) |
| luz {f} [colloquial] | :: electricity |
| Luz {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| Luz {prop} {f} | :: Luz (municipality) |
| luz da rua {f} | :: streetlight |
| luz de Drummond {f} [theatre, obsolete] | :: Drummond light, limelight (stage lighting obtained by burning lime) |
| luz de rua {f} | :: alternative form of luz da rua |
| luzerna {f} /lu.ˈzɛɾ.nɐ/ | :: oil lamp |
| Luzerna {prop} | :: Luzerna (municipality) |
| luzes, câmera, ação {phrase} [cinematography] | :: lights, camera, action (traditional cue at a beginning of a film take) |
| Luzia {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| luzidio {adj} /lu.ziˈdi.u/ | :: bright |
| luzindo {v} | :: gerund of luzir |
| luzir {vi} /lu.ˈziɾ/ | :: to shine (to emit light) |
| luz no fim do túnel {n} | :: alternative form of a luz no fim do túnel |
| Luzon {prop} {f} | :: Luzon (island) |
| Luzón {prop} {f} | :: alternative spelling of Luzon |
| Lviv {prop} {f} | :: Lviv (oblast) |
| Lviv {prop} {f} | :: Lviv (city/and/municipality/administrative center) |
| Lvov {prop} {f} | :: alternative form of Lviv |
| Lx. {prop} | :: abbreviation of Lisboa |
| LX {prop} | :: abbreviation of Lisboa |
| Lx.ª {prop} {f} | :: abbreviation of Lisboa |
| lycença {f} | :: obsolete spelling of licença |
| lyceo {m} | :: obsolete spelling of liceu |
| lyceu {m} | :: obsolete spelling of liceu |
| lymphadenectomia {f} [surgery] | :: lymphadenectomy |
| lynce {m} | :: obsolete spelling of lince |
| Lyon {prop} {f} | :: Lyon (capital city) |