Noun: Portugal
| Singular | Portugal |
| Plural | Portugals |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like Portugal
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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:
2. * From the name of the Gallaeci, a Celtic tribe of Iberia.
3. * From Latin calidus (“warm”).
4. * From Ancient Greek Καλλίς (Kallís, “Beautiful”), referring to the Douro valley; see καλός (kalós, “beautiful”).
5. * An Iberian pronunciation of Ancient Greek Γαῖα (Gaîa, “goddess of the Earth”). See: Latin Nouns '
Portucale'.
Verbs referencing "Portugal"
Zulu Nouns
iPhothugali.