Category:Portuguese terms by usage

Portuguese terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Portuguese terms with archaic senses: Portuguese terms with individual senses that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Portuguese archaic terms: Portuguese terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Portuguese autological terms: Portuguese terms that possess the property they themselves describe.
• Category:Portuguese censored spellings: Portuguese spellings where some characters have been changed in an effort to reduce the shock value of the original term.
• Category:Portuguese childish terms: Portuguese terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Portuguese colloquialisms: Portuguese terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Portuguese dated terms: Portuguese terms that are no longer fashionable and thus are anachronistic, but still sometimes in use, especially by older speakers.
• Category:Portuguese derogatory terms: Portuguese terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Portuguese dialectal terms: Portuguese terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Portuguese ecclesiastical terms: Portuguese terms used only by religious figures.
• Category:Portuguese endearing terms: Portuguese terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Portuguese familiar terms: Portuguese terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
• Category:Portuguese formal terms: Portuguese terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Portuguese gender-neutral terms: Portuguese terms that are applicable to all people, independent of gender.
• Category:Portuguese higher register terms: Portuguese terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Portuguese honorific terms: Portuguese honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Portuguese humorous terms: Portuguese terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Portuguese informal terms: Portuguese terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Portuguese nonstandard terms: Portuguese terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Portuguese terms with obsolete senses: Portuguese terms with individual senses that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Portuguese obsolete terms: Portuguese terms that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Portuguese offensive terms: Portuguese terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Portuguese placeholder terms: Portuguese terms used to refer to items for which one does not know or cannot recall the name, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
• Category:Portuguese poetic terms: Portuguese terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Portuguese polite terms: Portuguese polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Portuguese proscribed terms: Portuguese terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Portuguese terms with rare senses: Portuguese terms with individual senses that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Portuguese rare terms: Portuguese terms that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Portuguese self-deprecatory terms: Portuguese self-deprecatory terms.
• Category:Portuguese short forms: Portuguese terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Portuguese slang: Portuguese colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Portuguese superseded forms: Portuguese forms that have been superseded by other forms due to changes in spelling conventions.
• Category:Portuguese terms of address: Portuguese terms used to refer to another person.
• Category:Portuguese terms with historical senses: Portuguese terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Portuguese trademarks: Portuguese terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:Portuguese terms with uncommon senses: Portuguese terms with individual senses that are in general use but not common.
• Category:Portuguese uncommon terms: Portuguese terms that are in general use but not common.
• Category:Portuguese vulgarities: Portuguese terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
• Category:Portuguese women's speech terms: Portuguese terms and forms used in women's speech.