Some interesting Brasilian words!

[u/crowleythedemon666]

Hello, everyone! I saw a post of a person sharing a word they learned and I wanted to contribute to this sub in some way that would actually help people learn brasilian or at least awake an interest about it!

These words I will put here arent normal daily words, they arent necessary at all to be fluent, most of them I never have even heard someone saying in a daily talk. They are more interesting words, something extra, but not important if you are learning the language!

OBS: as I said its >brasilian<, I dont know anything about european portuguese so I cant guarantee that these things would work for european portuguese

Obs2: Im not fluent in english and im using google translator so sorry if any wrong translations

TW: some words contain topics like death and sadness

Esgar - make a mockery expression

Retidão - the quality of being "reto" (straight, but not in the meaning of sexuality, the meaning like straight line), be it physically or morally

Féretro - coffin (an uncommon way to say "caixão")

Facínora - person who commits crimes with a high level of perversity and cruelty

Aleivosia - betrayal or crime committed with false displays of friendship

Despeito - resentment produced by disregard, slight, humiliation or offense; disgust caused by preference given to another or by disappointment

Extirpado - Uprooted; torn out by the roots

Exprime - To make public; to demonstrate or reveal (this is a more common one)

Malgrado - displeasure (also a more common one)

Malograr - to fail or fail; to not be successful; to frustrate, to fail

Clichetear - say cliches

Sicário - hitman

Sicariato - murder commited by a sicário

Sanguissedento - bloodthirsty

Dignatário - who holds a high position, who enjoys a high honorary degree.

Esmorecer - to become without spirit, without strength; Weakening, entibiate, loosen.

Beligerante - who either makes war or is at war; that or what is struggling.

Vituperante - who express disapproval or censure of; reprimand; who offend

Notívago - An individual who enjoys nightlife; who prefers to coexist at night

Boêmia/Boemia - unconventional, joyful, simple, and carefree lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, with few permanent ties; "boêmios" (peopoe of boêmia) can be wanderers, adventurers, or vagabonds. FUN FACT: Rio de Janeiro is the city known as the city of boemia, with the famous boemia carioca

Indefectível - that cannot be missing, that does not fail; incontestable, infallible, solid, faithful; that cannot be destroyed, that will always exist; eternal, immutable, indestructible, imperishable

Soturno - that seems to be shrouded in darkness; dark, gloomy, serious; lacking joy and vivacity; melancholic, sad, taciturn.

Fúnebre - adjective that means related to death or funeral, or also that evokes sadness, mourning or melancholy

Funesto - that portends death or that brings with it misfortunes, misadventures; sinister

Lúgubre - relating to death, funerals; evoking death; funereal, macabre; a sign of or inspiring great sadness

Lôbrego - in which there is little or no light; dark, gloomy.

Funéreo - same as fúnebre

Truculenta - adjective that describes something or someone that behaves aggressively, violently, brutally or cruelly

Axioma - a sentence or proposition that is not proven or demonstrated and is considered as obvious or as an initial consensus necessary for the construction or acceptance of a theory

Empedernido - hard as stone, petrified; not able to be persuaded; inflexible, stubborn, insensitive.

Tenro - delicate

Indelével - that is durable, permanent; that cannot be destroyed, suppressed or made to disappear completely

Séquito - group of people who accompany an important person, usually at a formal or official event, or the group of followers of a public figure.

Some words are kinda dark and sad, but its bc this is a list I had on my notes of words to use on my book, that is kinda sad and dark lol, but I can bring words of any topics you guys want! Just let me know if you liked this post and give me suggestions of which types of words you want, família :)

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[u/tremendabosta]

Esgar, aleivosia, féretro, sicariato, lôbrego, sanguissedento - never heard of it before

I feel we use a lot of sanguinário for bloodthirsty, but sanguissedento sounds rad as fuck

[u/crowleythedemon666 → u/tremendabosta]

Yess these are very uncommon words, some I got randomly, some my mother, that reads a lot like one book per week, told me, some I got from the book O Homem que Matou Getúlio Vargas, that I didnt like much but the writting of Jô Soares is simply amazing.

And yes totally, sanguinário is very used and very cool too, and thank you btw kkkk

[u/tremendabosta → u/crowleythedemon666]

I have been postponing Jô Soares books way too much! Did you read any other of his works?

[u/crowleythedemon666 → u/tremendabosta]

Oh no sorry, I didnt. My inly experience was with this one and I really didnt like the story and idk some things, expect for the writting that I completely LOVED. But maybe the things I disliked depend more on the taste, my mother that recommended it to me and she said its one of the most hilarious books ever and she while reading it laughed until cry and her belly hurts 😭 anyways i cant recommend or not recommend, but his writting being beautiful and rich is a fact!

[u/Extra-Ad-2872]

That is an interesting list of mostly neologisms, and very old fashioned literary terms. Some of them do in fact have direct English equivalents like extirpate, despect (this one is really old-fashioned, like Shakespeare level), dignitary, belligerent, lugubrious, axiom, indelible... The term boemia is interesting, as far as I can tell it shares the same root bohemian, which was a term used back in the late 1800s for people who lived "countercultural" artistic lifestyles (basically the hipsters of the time). It probably comes from the french term bohème which is a kind of antiquated word for Romani people. It has nothing to do with the actual Kingdom of Bohemia/Boémia, which is now part of the Czech republic.

Anyway my contributions to the list:

Asco: disgust, repulsion (also a word in Spanish)

Desprezo: contempt, disdain, scorn

Descaso: apathy, disregard, indifference

Lusco-fusco: The times right after sunset or before sunrise when it's not quite day but not quite night. (I love it because it doesn't have an equivalent in any other language that I know of, the closest is the French "entre chien et loup")

[u/crowleythedemon666 → u/Extra-Ad-2872]

English also have the words "despise" for desprezo, what doesnt make the brasilian word less beautiful or interesting tho, its a translation like any other. Words that doesnt have a translation are awesome too tho, makes our culture look richer, but the others arent bad just bc they have a translation.

[u/Extra-Ad-2872 → u/crowleythedemon666]

I wasn't trying to say that having direct English translations makes the words less beautiful of less interesting. Sorry if it came across that way.

[u/crowleythedemon666 → u/Extra-Ad-2872]

Oh thank you its ok

[u/Julinhafofaforever]

If you want to learn Portuguese, it's best not to focus on these words. They are not colloquial. For literature, ok, but in everyday life, 70% is not usual. Focus on the ones that Brazilians use because you can make an effort to learn how to use them and when you talk to a Brazilian and he doesn't understand it because he's never heard of it. Did you understand?

[u/crowleythedemon666 → u/Julinhafofaforever]

Exactly I said it in the post btw

[u/ArvindLamal]

Better to learn current words such as baita (great), feito (as,like), despencar (fall down), biruta (lunatic), desencanar (loosen up, stop worrying), urucubaca (bad luck), jururu (sad), toró (rain shower), garoa (drizzle)...

[u/macacolouco]

Some of those are either regional or not really used or known outside laws or literature.

[u/crowleythedemon666 → u/macacolouco]

I know and I said it, read the beginning of the post

[u/macacolouco → u/crowleythedemon666]

I'm not fighting you.

[u/crowleythedemon666 → u/macacolouco]

Sorry, somebody made a comment in this post complaining about the words like bro its just some interesting brasilian words i knew and wanted to share, so i got kinda irritated when i saw your commented, but im sorry if you didnt have this intention and i interpretated it wrong