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Portuguese to English History Translation Glossary

Portuguese term English translation
carta de feira franca charter for a free fair
Entered by: Tania Pires
carta de mercê charter of donation
Entered by: Tania Pires
casas de pasto eating houses
castreja Castro
catequização indoctrination
caudilhos warlords
cava cellar
Cavalhadas jousts
círculo letrado/circulo de letrados a circle of scholars
chapado silver and black plated
charque jerked beef => jerky...
Entered by: airmailrpl
clave de pedra stone ax
Entered by: airmailrpl
Coincidências com o noticiário de 2009 à parte, e hoje? Coincidences with the news of 2009 aside, what about today?
colocou no lugar soberano do governo de um, um soberano... Rousseau merely placed an undefined monarch in the position of an absolute monarch.
colonização de exploração colonization based on exploitation
Entered by: airmailrpl
colono tenant farmer
comboio maldito train from Hell
comenda commandery / commandry
Entered by: Tania Pires
como instância articuladora das ações having an organisational role for the processes
congéneres sister structures
Entered by: Daniel de Carvalho
consiste em embasamento teórico has a theoretical basis
construção da brasilidade e da portugalidade development of Brazilian and Portuguese (national) identities; construction of "Brazilian-ness" and "Portuguese-ness"
contracorrente against the mainstream
corcundas despóticos despotic hunchbacks
corrida imperialista imperialist expansion
cramear to comb
Entered by: Tania Pires
Crítica de Escada Abaixo (Antonio da Silva Jardim) criticism/criticizing/critique down the drain
criados servants
cultura brasileira envolvente enveloping Brazilian culture
data de c. 1770 around 1770 / in approximately 1770
de então back then
debuta entered the arena
desamortizado disentailed
desconsideração do território em ... turning a blind eye/neglect/overlooking of the territory in debates
e só faz sentido em seu interior. and only makes sense within it.
edifício da Auditoria Military Justice/Court Building
Entered by: Tania Pires
efetivação da cidadania territorial establishment of territorial citizenship
Em boa medida to a large extent
em retorno do in return for
Empiria practical reality
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