Portuguese is the language of Lisbon and of Brazil. Speak Portuguese, Portuguese food, a Portuguese passport.
It has more speakers in Brazil than anywhere else by a very wide margin, and Brazilian and European Portuguese differ in pronunciation enough that speakers notice at once. It is the official language of nine countries across four continents, a legacy of the Portuguese empire. Note that Portuguese is one of the few nationality words that is the same in singular and plural.
1adjectiveportugueseBelonging to Portugal or its language.
“We ate grilled sardines in a little Portuguese restaurant by the sea.”
2nounitselfThe language itself.
“Roughly two hundred and sixty million speak Portuguese.”
portuguese is a language or nationality.
Portuguese
português
English
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English, today
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Portuguese comes from Portuguese português. by surface analysis, Portugal + -ese.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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