Portuguese Language Resources

Portuguese has around 220 million native speakers worldwide. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe. It is also an official language in Timor-Leste, Equatorial Guinea and Macau in China.

Portuguese is regulated by Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Portuguese: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa) Lisbon Academy of SciencesExternal link (opens in new tab) (in Portuguese) and Brazilian Academy of Letters (Portuguese: Academia Brasileira de Letras ) Brazilian Academy of LettersExternal link (opens in new tab) (in Portuguese). Dialects can be broadly divided into Brazilian Portuguese (spoken in Brazil) and European Portuguese, while African Portuguese tends to be more closely related, in written form, to European Portuguese. Portuguese-based creole languages are spoken in Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau.

Portuguese Dictionaires and Online Translators
Portuguese ↔ English
Collins Portuguese Dictionary
Right arrowwww.collinsdictionary.com

Official Collins English-Portuguese Dictionary online. Over 100,000 Portuguese translations of English words and phrases

Portuguese ↔ English
Infopédia Portuguese-English Dictionary
Portuguese ↔ Portuguese
Priberam Portuguese Dictionary
Right arrowdicionario.priberam.org

Portuguese-Portuguese Dictionary

Agriculture, food
  • English
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • French
AGROVOC Thesaurus / FAO
Right arrowwww.vocabularyserver.com

Multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains

  • English
  • Portuguese
English-Portuguese Equivalents of Forestry and Conservation Terms
Right arrowwww.srs.fs.fed.us

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

  • English
  • Portuguese
English-Portuguesee Agriculture Glossary
Right arrowwww.sk.com.br

English Made in Brazil - Glossary of terms used in Agriculture

Business and Management
  • English
  • Portuguese
English-Portuguesee Human Resources Glossary
Right arrowwww.sk.com.br

English Made in Brazil - Glossario of terms used in human resources

Finance
  • English
  • Portuguese
English-Portuguesee Finance Accounting & Legal Glossary
Right arrowwww.sk.com.br

English Made in Brazil - Glossario of terms used in Finance Accounting & Legal

  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Swedish
  • Finnish
Financial crisis glossary
Right arrowwww.europarl.europa.eu

  • Arabic
  • Russian
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • English
  • Chinese
IMF Multilingual Terminology Database
Right arrowwww.imf.org

The IMF TermBase contains over 17,000 entries and acronyms encountered in IMF documents in areas such as money and banking, public finance, balance of payments, and economic growth.

Government
  • English
  • Portuguese
English-Portuguesee Statistics Glossary
Right arrowglossario.spestatistica.pt

Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística

  • English
  • Portuguese
Glossary of Social Security Terms
Right arrowwww.ssa.gov

  • English
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • French
Index of Trade Terms
Right arrowwww.sice.oas.org

Foreign Trade Information System

  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Swedish
  • Greek
  • Czech
  • Polish
Interactive Terminology for Europe
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IATE (Interactive Terminology for Europe) is the EUs terminology database. It has been used in the EU institutions and agencies since summer 2004 for the collection, dissemination and management of EU-specific terminology.

  • Portuguese
  • English
  • French
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Arabic
  • Danish
ISI - INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
Right arrowwww.isi-web.org

The ISI glossary of statistical terms in a number of languages some of which use special acters.

  • Portuguese
  • English
Statistics Glossary
Right arrowwww.spestatistica.pt

SPE- Portuguese Statistical Society

Law
  • Portuguese
Portuguese Justice Glossary
Right arrowjustica.gov.pt

Justiça.gov.pt

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Chinese
  • Portuguese
  • Polish
  • Norwegian
World Law Dictionary
Right arrowdictionary.translegal.com

Multilingual Dictionary of Legal Terms

Medicine and Health
  • English
  • Portuguese
  • French
  • Spanish
DeCS Health Sciences Descriptors
Right arrowdecs.bvsalud.org

A unique language in indexing articles from scientific journals, books, congress proceedings, technical reports, and other types of materials

  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms
Right arrowusers.ugent.be

Glosario de términos técnicos médicos -

Philosophy
  • Portuguese
  • English
Philosophy Glossary
Right arrowcriticanarede.com

Glossário filosófico inglês-português

Sport and Leisure
  • English
  • Arabic
  • Japanese
  • Italian
  • Korean
  • Chinese
  • Russian
  • Portuguese
Cavers Multi-Lingual Dictionary
Right arrowwww.uisic.uis-speleo.org

UIS on-line multi-lingual dictionary of caving and speleological terms

  • Chinese
  • English
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • French
  • Swedish
  • Russian
  • Portuguese
Football Glossary in 8 Languages
Right arrowwww.scribd.com

Football glossary in 8 languages

Portuguese Style Guides
Jacques Delors European Information Centre - Portuguese Style Guide
Right arrowinfoeuropa.eurocid.pt

Guia de estilo - Centro de Informação Europeia Jacques Delors

Lusa - Portugal News Agency Style Guide (PDF, Download)
Right arrowwww.lusa.pt

Livro de Estilo da Lusa - Agência de Notícias de Portugal

Microsoft - Brazilian Portuguese Style Guide (PDF, Download)
Right arrowdownload.microsoft.com

The style guide covers guidelines and recommendations for translating the Microsoft voice into Portuguese (Brazil)

Microsoft - European Portuguese Style Guide (PDF, Download)
Right arrowdownload.microsoft.com

The style guide covers guidelines and recommendations for translating the Microsoft voice into European Portuguese

Portugal Justice Portugal - Secretaria-Geral do Ministério da Justiça (PDF, Download)
Right arrowjustica.gov.pt

Style guide for legal texts

Público Style Guide
Right arrowstatic.publico.pt

Style Guide from Público (Portuguese daily national newspaper )

University of Lisbon - Sciences Faculty (PDF, Download)
Right arrowciencias.ulisboa.pt

Style Guide - info-Ciências digital

Portuguese Language News
Angola, Portugal sign agreements on visas, investment, and education
Right arrowwww.xinhuanet.com
The five-year Saber Mais agreement, valued at around 4 million euros (some 4.7 million U.S. dollars), aims to help Angola train teachers in fields such as mathematics, Portuguese, pre-school education, and special educational needs.
CPLP: On World Portuguese Language Day, UN boss hails languages importance
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The statements by UN officials come at a time when Portugal and other Portuguese-language countries, such as Brazil, have restated their interest in adding Portuguese to the roster of official languages at the UN, which currently has six: Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, English and Russian.
8 curious facts about Portuguese speaking regions
Right arrowartsandculture.google.com
From influencing the Japanese culinary to the first Jewish settlers in New York
Web promotion of business opportunities in Portuguese-speaking countries to begin next month
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An eight-month web promotion campaign on business opportunities in Portuguese-speaking countries, co-sponsored by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute and the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, will be launched next month.
Machine Translation and the Portuguese Language
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Portuguese is ranked 5th among the top ten languages in terms of the number of Internet users globally, behind English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic. In terms of the percentage of websites in Portuguese as a share of global websites,
Accurate Translations and Localization arent Possible with MachineS
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The best way to efficiently reach out to your target audience in a foreign market is to speak the language they follow. Consequently, it is extremely necessary that you get the tone, emotions and expressions right.
Cabo Verde proposes that official documents be reciprocally recognised in Portuguese-speaking countries
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The Prime Minister of Cabo Verde proposed that documents issued by a Member State of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) no longer need legalisation for presentation in another Member Stat
In Macau, the old colonial tongue is back in vogue
Right arrowwww.economist.com
China’s global trade is fuelling interest in the study of Portuguese
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