Portuguese

From Portuguese portuguÃªs.

Full definition of Portuguese

1973, Roger Parkinson, The Peninsular War, page 104The British army had already moved over the border and the commander had established his HQ high in the central Portuguese mountains at Viseu.

1887, George Brown Goode, The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, section IV, page 33In San Diego County there is but one Portuguese fisherman, as is also the case in Los Angeles, the county immediately adjoining.

1981, Milton Mariano Azevedo, A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English, page 31The latter feature indicates that a Portuguese consonant cannot constitute the nucleus of a syllable.

(plural Portuguese)

1920, Paulus Edward Pieris, Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658, page 184With a view to securing its more efficient working, a Portuguese was placed in charge of the entire department as Vidane.
2000, RenÃ© Chartrand & Bill Younghusband, The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars, volume 1, page 23Beresford required all materials for coatees, waistcoats and pantaloons to be sent out unmade, as the Portuguese were perfectly capable of making the suits up properly after delivery.

(plural Portugueses)

A Romance language originating in Portugal, and now the official language of Portugal, Angola, MoÃ§ambique (Mozambique), SÃ£o TomÃ© e PrÃncipe (SÃ£o TomÃ© and PrÃncipe), GuinÃ© Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), Timor Leste (East Timor), and Brasil (Brazil).

2000, JoÃ£o Costa, Portuguese Syntax: new comparative studies, page 65Portuguese, however, is slightly different from Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian in that there is no strict adjacency requirement between wh-words and the verbal cluster in indirect questions.