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Portuguese Dictionaries

From the World

• Online Portuguese-Spanish dictionary. Very good at distinguishing shades of meaning, with examples and Spanish translations. So it may be useful even for those who don't know much Spanish.
• Travlang, Portuguese-English
• Dicionários Online, links to lots of online Portuguese glossaries and dictionaries.
• Portuguese food dictionary, part of this Lisbon tourist guide.
• Online dictionaries at bab.la (with the motto: Loving Languages).
  • Portuguese-English
  • Portuguese-German
  • Portuguese-Spanish
  • and many more, und viele andere, y muchas otras.

From Portugal

• Academia das Ciências de Lisboa:
  Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea
  Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea

  This is the only Portuguese dictionary I know that gives full pronunciation info on all the words (not including conjugated verbs), including irregular plurals.
  See also (2009) Langenscheidt.
  (See also Editorial Verbo's pt>nl and nl>pt dictionaries.)

• Houaiss.
• Porto Editora:
  Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (online word look-up; free subscription required)
  Paper versions
• Grande Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (2004).
• Novo Dicionário Português-Inglês de Lello.
• Priberam:
  Dictionário Universal Língua Portuguesa
  (online word look-up; includes verb conjugations!)

  Priberam on CD-ROM

• Priberam: Dictionary of Cape Verdian Portuguese
• Notícias Editorial:
  Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, Novos Dicionário, actualização Isabel Casanova.
• Dicionário aberto de calão e expressões idiomáticas (Open dictionary of slang/jargon/argot/patois and idiomatic expressions).

From Brazil

• Houaiss (background information), or buy it. New version, covering all lusophonic countries, in 6 volumes of 640 pages each: Houaiss.
• Aurélio (CD), Aurélio (Germany), Aurélio (more information), Aurélio (online word look-up; only for UOL users!)
• Michealis (online word look-up)
• Michealis, Aurélio, e outros
• Michealis Portuguese-English (online word look-up)
• BTS Global

From Germany

Langenscheidt Euro-Wörterbuch Portugiesisch, Portugiesisch – Deutsch Deutsch – Portugiesisch

New Edition (Neubearbeitung) 2009, by Ana M^a Cortes Kollert, Dr. Charlotte Frei and Ekkehard Dengler.

This dictionary states the pronunciation of all Portuguese entries, including irregular plurals and conjugations.

From France

Dicionário dos Portugueses de França, by Miguel Padeiro and Eduardo Pereira. The authors call this kind of Portuguese with French words mixed in “Frantuguês”.

A compilation of seemingly Portuguese words, that are in fact loanwords from French, coined by Portuguese immigrants living in France.

The dictionary itself can be downloaded from the site as a PDF document.

From Belgium and the Netherlands

• Standaard Uitgeverij, Antwerpen, SDU, Den Haag:
  Standaard woordenboek Nederlands-Portugees
  Standaard woordenboek Portugees-Nederlands,
  M. Baltazar, G. van Damme, W. Bossier
  (see also: SDU and Standaard break-up)
• New edition, Het Spectrum; In de serie Prisma woordenboeken:
  
  Prisma woordenboek Portugees-Nederlands, by G. van Damme
  
  
  Prisma Nederlands-Portugees, by Willem Bossier

• (Note that this second set of Prisma dictionaries is a very different, much larger one than the above mentioned)
  
  Prisma groot woordenboek Portugees-Nederlands, by M. Celeste Augusto and Karolien van Eck.

  
  Prisma groot woordenboek Nederlands-Portugees, by M. Celeste Augusto and Karolien van Eck.

  More info: Woordenboek, The making of, Funding, Onze taal, Editions for the Portuguese market, of the same dictionaries, by Editorial Verbo.

Miscellaneous

Verb conjugations, of many languages including Portuguese.

Here's another site about Portuguese dictionaries:
Sobre sites - Pesquisa Escolar - Dicionários
by Teresa Silva.

(Off-topic for this page, for about English and German, but interesting anyway):

A hypertext dictionary based on Webster's 1913. Made accessible by Chris Knight.
See also the more modern, but not autohyperlinking Merriam-Webster.

And Dutch:
Van Dale groot woordenboek der Nederlandse taal set

Duden - Brockhaus

This page compiled by R. Harmsen.
Latest update 27 December 2009

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