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| caravel |
a small, light, fast sailing ship used by the Spanish and Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with two or three masts and triangular sails. |
| cedilla |
a diacritical mark (ç), placed under certain letters in French, Portuguese, Turkish, and Russian to indicate a particular pronunciation, as, in French, the sound of "s" for the letter "c". |
| Ferdinand Magellan |
a Portuguese navigator who discovered the Strait of Magellan and the Philippines (b.1480?--d.1521). |
| grandee |
a Spanish or Portuguese nobleman of the highest rank. [1/2 definitions] |
| infanta |
the daughter of a Spanish or Portuguese king, or the wife of his son who is not heir to the throne. |
| infante |
a son of a Spanish or Portuguese king who is not heir to the throne. |
| Latin America |
collectively, those countries in the Western Hemisphere south of the United States, in which the predominant language is a Romance language, such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, or a Creole. |
| Madeira |
a group of Portuguese islands off the northwest African coast. [1/3 definitions] |
| man-of-war |
see "Portuguese man-of-war." [1/2 definitions] |
| romance |
(cap.) of, denoting, or pertaining to the modern languages derived from Latin, such as Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. [1/7 definitions] |
| siphonophore |
any of various transparent or colored marine hydrozoans, including the Portuguese man-of-war. |
| tilde |
a diacritical mark (ñ), placed over an "n" in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound, or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization. |
| Vasco da Gama |
a Portuguese explorer who established the first all-water trade route between Europe and India (b.1460?--d.1524). |
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