Portugal

• Portingale, Portugall, Portingall (obsolete)

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portucale < Portus Cale (former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia), from portus + Callus, which is disputed:

• From the name of the Gallaeci, a Celtic tribe of Iberia.
• From Latin calidus (“warm”).
• From Ancient Greek Καλλίς (Kallís, “Beautiful”), referring to the Douro valley; see καλός (kalós, “beautiful”).
• An Iberian pronunciation of Ancient Greek Γαῖα (Gaîa, “goddess of the Earth”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːt͡ʃəɡəl/, /ˈpɔːtjəɡəl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹt͡ʃəɡəl/

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• (General American, rare) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹtuɡɑːl/

Portugal

2. A country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. Official name: Portuguese Republic. Capital and largest city: Lisbon. quotations ▼
   • 2000, Glanville Price, Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe, reprint, illustrated edition, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 367:

     A distinction is usually made between Old Portuguese (português antigo, português arcaico), referring to the period from the earliest texts to 1540, Classical Portuguese (1540-1850), and Modern Portuguese (1850 to the present). There is sometimes a further subdivision of the Old Portuguese period into a Galician-Portuguese period (origins to 1350), during which the linguistic and cultural unit of Galicia and Portugal remained strong, and the Old Portuguese period proper (1350-1540).

   • 2025 May 7, Ben Morse, “‘Proud of you’: Cristiano Ronaldo’s eldest son earns first call-up for Portugal Under-15 national team”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Cristiano Ronaldo’s eldest son has earned his first call-up for the Portugal Under-15 national squad, the team announced on Tuesday.

• Lusitania

Portugal (plural Portugals)

1. (now rare) A Portuguese person. quotations ▼
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     Some became Christians, from whose faith and race, even at this day (for it is an hundred yeares since) few Portugalls assure themselves; although custome and length of time be much more forcible counsellors unto such mutations than any other compulsion.

• Portugal § Etymology on Wikipedia

• Countries of the world

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

• Portugal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula; capital and largest city: Lissabon)

• Portugees

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• portugués

• IPA^(key): /portuɡal/ [por.t̪u.ɣ̞al]

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• Rhymes: -uɡal, -al
• Hyphenation: Por‧tu‧gal

Portugal inan

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• portugaldar (“Portuguese”)
• portugalera (“Portuguese language”)

• portuges (“Portuguese language”)

• “38.- Munduko estatuen izenak, herritarren izenak, hizkuntza ofizialak eta hiriburuak [Names of the states of the world, nationalities, official languages and capitals]”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Arauak, Euskaltzaindia, 2019

From Latin Portucale < Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pur.tuˈɣal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [por.tuˈɣal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [poɾ.tuˈɣal]

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Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• (Portuguese):
  • portugalès (obsolete)
  • portugués (Valencian)
  • portuguès

• Lusitània (“Lusitania”)

From Spanish Portugal. Also from Portuguese Portugal, from Old Galician-Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula) quotations ▼
   • 2018 June 21, “Portugal sud sa 2nd round”, in SuperBalita Cebu:

     Taliwala sa kahugot nga kombati, gipakita ni Cristiano Ronaldo ang iyang kahanas ug kapabilidad aron ituboy ang Portugal ngadto sa 1-0 nga kadaugan batok sa Morroco sa 2018 Fifa World Cup sa Russia.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. a surname from Spanish or Portuguese
3. a male given name from Spanish or Portuguese quotations ▼
   • 2017 September 26, Querubin, Flor V, “Drug Den Gidemolis”, in SuperBalita Cebu:

     Wa makabalda ang bunok sa uwan kagahapon sa buntag sa dihang giguba ang estruktura nga kanhi gipanag-iya sa usa ka Portugal Balani nga giingong gigamit nga suyopanan, repacking sa shabu ug ubang illegal nga kalihokan nahimutang sa Sityo Camansi sa maong barangay.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Borrowed from Spanish Portugal.

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• (Portuguese):
  • portuguéstlakatl
  • portuguéstlajtoli

Borrowed from Spanish Portugal.

• IPA^(key): /poɾtuˈɡal/

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• (Portuguese):
  • portugaltecatl (Amecameca)
  • portuguéstlacatl (Cholula)
  • portugallacatl (Milpa Alta)

• Mancilla Sepúlveda, Héctor. (2000) Lecciones de Nahuatl, Hirata Editorial, México DF.

Borrowed from Spanish Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

• IPA^(key): /poɾtuˈɡal/

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• (Portuguese):
  • portugallâcà, portuguéstin (obsolete)
  • portugués
  • portugallacatl

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈportuɡal]
• Hyphenation: Por‧tu‧gal

Portugal m anim (female equivalent Portugalka)

1. (obsolete) Portuguese (person)

• “Portugal”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Portugal”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• portugiser c (“Portuguese”)
• portugisisk (“Portuguese”, adjective)

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia. Doublet of Poortugaal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔrtyɣɑl/

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Portugal n (adjective Portugees, demonym Portugees m or Portugese f)

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• IPA^(key): /ˈportuɡ̊ɑl/, [ˈportuɡ̊ɑl]

Portugal (genitive Portugali, partitive Portugali)

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

more ▼Declension of Portugal (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Portugal	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Portugali
genitive			—
partitive		Portugali	—
illative		Portugali Portugalisse	—
inessive		Portugalis	—
elative		Portugalist	—
allative		Portugalile	—
adessive		Portugalil	—
ablative		Portugalilt	—
translative		Portugaliks	—
terminative		Portugalini	—
essive		Portugalina	—
abessive		Portugalita	—
comitative		Portugaliga	—

• Portugal in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “Portugal”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale.

• (Belgium, France) IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.ty.ɡal/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.t͡sʏ.ɡal/

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Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• portugais
• portugais du Portugal

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• portughês

From Old Galician-Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portucale < Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• portugués

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɐ̯tuɡal]

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Portugal n (proper noun, genitive Portugals or (optionally with an article) Portugal)

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• Portugiese
• Portugieser
• portugiesisch
• Portugiesisch

• “Portugal”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Portugal, from Old Galician-Portuguese Portugal, from Late Latin Portucale, from Latin Portus Cale, from portus + possibly Callus.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pʰortuˈkaːl/, /pʰortuˈkal/, /portuˈkaːl/, /portuˈkal/
• Rhymes: -aːl, -al
• Syllabification: Por‧tu‧gal

Portugal n

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• IPA^(key): /porˈtuɡal/

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

From Malay Portugal, from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /pɔrˈtuɡal/ [pɔrˈt̪u.ɡal]
• Rhymes: -uɡal
• Syllabification: Por‧tu‧gal
• Homophone: portugal

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• “Portugal”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• Portugāl

Via Latvian Portugāle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈportuɡɑl/, [ˈporˑtˑuɡɑl]

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula) quotations ▼
   • 2012–2013, “Portugal”, in Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits, editors, Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[3], Tartu, Riga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra:

     Portugal – Portugal – Portugāle

     Portugal – Portugal – Portugal

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “Portugal”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[4] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

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Portugal n

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• Portugis
• Portugisin
• Portugiser
• portugisesch
• Portugisesch

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

• IPA^(key): /po(r)tuɡal/
• Rhymes: -uɡal, -al

Portugal (Jawi spelling ڤورتوݢل)

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• Portugis

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

• (Urban East Norwegian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰùʈʉɡɑːl/

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• portugiser
• portugisisk

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• portugis, portugisar
• portugisisk

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• portugués

• Portogal, Portugale

Inherited from Late Latin Portucale < Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

• IPA^(key): /poɾtuˈɡal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: Por‧tu‧gal

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a medieval kingdom in Southern Europe) quotations ▼
   • 1214, Afonso II of Portugal, Testamento de Afonso II [The will of King Afonso II of Portugal]:

     eu rei don afonſo pela gracia de deuſ rei de portugal. ſeendo ſano e ſaluo temẽte o dia de mia morte […]

     I, King Afonso, by the grace of God king of Portugal, being safe and sound, fearing the day of my death […]

   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 224 (facsimile):

     Como ſanta maria de Terena q̇ e no Reino de Portugal, reſſucitou hũa menỹa morta.

     How Holy Mary of Terena, which is in the Kingdom of Portugal, resurrected a dead girl.

• Fala: Portugal
• Galician: Portugal
• Portuguese: Portugal (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle Dutch: Portegale
  • → Dutch: Poortugaal
• → Middle French: Portingal
  • → Middle English: Portyngale
    • → Middle Scots: Portingal

• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “Portugal”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “Portugal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “Portugal”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Purtugal (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portucale < Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

Cognate with Fala and Galician Portugal.

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aw, (Portugal) -al
• Hyphenation: Por‧tu‧gal

Portugal m (plural Portugais)

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula; official name: República Portuguesa; capital and largest city: Lisboa)

• As opposed to most country names in Portuguese, Portugal is normally used without the definite article, e.g.: de Portugal 'from Portugal', em Portugal 'in Portugal', a Portugal 'to Portugal'. However, it does take a definite article when it has a modifier, as in o Portugal do século XIX '19th-century Portugal'. This peculiarity applies to many other country and place names such as Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, São Tomé e Príncipe, Essuatíni, Macau, Timor-Leste, Andorra, Israel, Aragão, Castela or Leão, as well as to most city names.

• → Japanese: ポルトガル (Porutogaru)

• Portùgālija (Bosnia, Serbia)

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

• IPA^(key): /pôrtuɡal/
• Hyphenation: Por‧tu‧gal

Pȍrtugal m inan (Cyrillic spelling По̏ртугал)

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

From Latin Portucale < Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

• IPA^(key): /poɾtuˈɡal/ [poɾ.t̪uˈɣ̞al]

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: Por‧tu‧gal

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔrtɵɡal/, [ˈpɔʈɵɡal]

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Portugal n (genitive Portugals)

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

• portugis
• portugisisk
• portugisiska

• “Portugal”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH

Borrowed from Spanish Portugal (“Portugal”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /poɾtuˈɡal/ [poɾ.t̪ʊˈɣal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: Por‧tu‧gal

Portugál (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜇ᜔ᜆᜓᜄᜎ᜔)

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula) quotations ▼
   • 1949, Sa kapakanaan ng kapayapaan at kaunlarang pandaigdig:

     Ang mga bansang naunang lumagda sa kasunduang ito ay ang Estados Unidos, Kanada, Inglatera, Pransiya, Olanda, Belhika, Norwega, Luksemburgo, Italya, Dinamarka, Islandiya at Portugal.

     The first countries to sign this treaty were the United States, Canada, England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Luxembourg, Italy, Denmark, Iceland and Portugal.

Portugál (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜇ᜔ᜆᜓᜄᜎ᜔)

1. a surname from Spanish deriving from the name of the country

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Portugal is the 1,530^th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 7,025 individuals.

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula)