Our translators' pick of useful sites for Portuguese terminology, including public-service sites for terms used in context.

National websites

Portuguese institutional sites

• Portuguese law gazette (Diário da República)
• Presidency
• Parliament
• Government
• Supreme Court of Justice
• Constitutional Court
• Supreme Administrative Court
• Court of Auditors
• General Prosecutor of the Republic (PGR)

Other links from Portugal

• Bank of Portugal
• National Statistics Institute (INE)
• National Library
• Camões Institute — agency for external cultural and educational policy

Style and grammar guides, language campaigns

• Portuguese style guide — see under style guides for our contractors
• Portuguese Association for Terminological Information (Associação de Informação Terminológica)
• Centro Virtual Camões — resources for Portuguese
• Ciberdúvidas da língua portuguesa — questions and answers about Portuguese
• Terminómetro (União Latina) — terminology
• How to write clearly [2 MB] — European Commission booklet (all EU languages) [March 2010]

 

Online dictionaries, term banks and glossaries

Dictionaries & encyclopaedias

• Portuguese language portal — linguistic resources (1990 spelling agreement)
• Portuguese language dictionary — Infopedia (Porto Editora)
• Portuguese language dictionary (Priberam)
• Encyclopaedia — Universal (Texto Editora)
• Quotations database — Citador
• Machine translation service (Instituto Cervantes) — Portuguese/Spanish, Spanish/Portuguese
• False friends [289 KB] — Portuguese/Spanish and Spanish/Portuguese (p. 19-27)

Term banks & glossaries

• Agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food (AGROVOC)
• Education systems in Europe (TESE) — thesaurus
• Electropedia (IEC) — electrotechnical vocabulary
• Enterprise and industry acronyms
• Enterprise and industry glossary
• Environmental compliance for SMEs — glossary
• Environment glossary (EEA)
• EQUAL programme — glossary
• EU identification document security features — glossary
• Eurojargon
• EUROPA glossary
• European education and training policy
• EURYDICE — European education thesaurus
• Fish species — Baltic
• Fish species — Mediterranean
• Fish species — Mediterranean and Black Sea
• Fish species — North Sea
• FishBase — global information system on fish
• Main acronyms and abbreviations
• Organic farming glossary
• Statistics — multilingual glossary by the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• Water (Aqua Lingua)
• World bird database