Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This may increase cria survival by reducing fatalities due to hypothermia during cold Andean nights. While unproven, it is speculated that this birthing pattern is a continuation of the birthing patterns observed in the wild.
According to Encarta Dictionary and Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, "dodo" comes from Portuguese doudo (currently, more often, doido) meaning "fool" or "crazy". The present Portuguese word dodô ("dodo") is of English origin. The Portuguese word doudo or doido may itself be a loanword from Old English (cp. English "dolt") [34] Embarrass
The English word creole derives from the French créole, which in turn came from Portuguese crioulo, a diminutive of cria meaning a person raised in one's house.Cria is derived from criar, meaning "to raise or bring up", itself derived from the Latin creare, meaning "to make, bring forth, produce, beget"; which is also the source of the English word "create".
The dictionary is divided into three parts. Besides the introduction and preface by Ariano Suassuna, they are as follows: Portuguese–Tupi vocabulary; Tupi–Portuguese dictionary; Etymologies of toponyms and anthroponyms of Tupi origin in Brazilian Portuguese, and other tupinisms; The first part is a simple Portuguese-Tupi vocabulary.
a Portuguese loanword from English. A Brazilian definition is "a company that does its accounting in a country other than the one(s) where it operates." [53] Organização criminosa Organized crime. See also § Associação criminosa, § Quadrilha.
The meaning is "Russian" in the cultural and historic (Old East Slavic: рускъ, ruskʺ; Old Belarusian: руски, ruski; Russian: русский, russkiy) but not national sense (Russian: россиянин, rossiyánin), a distinction sometimes made by translating the name as "White Ruthenia", although "Ruthenian" has other meanings as
The first Michaelis dictionary was created by the end of the 19th century by the German lexicographer Henriette Michaelis in a partnership with her sister Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcelos. [1] The dictionary has versions in Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Japanese.
see also corrupção ativa The act of offering a corrupt payment or service. See corrupção ativa. Acordo de leniência see pt:Acordo de leniência ; also Leniency agreement a leniency agreement between a company and legal authorities. It's an agreement a company enters into with law authorities, to reduce their exposure to fines for criminal activity in exchange for something; typically an ...