Abade: abbot; rector of a parish (in some provinces)

Abadengo [ê]: abbey

Abadia: monastery headed by an abbot or abbess

Abscesso [é]: abscess

Ação judicial: lawsuit

Aceitante: accepting

Aceite: an act whereby the person, by stating the date and signature, is bound by an obligation in security against him/her

Aceptilação: debt settlement given to a debtor, with effect extended to others covered by the delivery of the unpaid security to the debtor. Remission of unpaid debt

Acre: acre

Adjacente [ê]: adjacent

Administrador: administrator

Adoção: adoption

Advento [ê]: advent; the four-week period that comes before Christmas

Afastamento [ê]: the act or effect of separating

Afinidade: affinity; the relationship between one spouse and relatives of the other

Alabardeiro: Spanish Royal Guard

Albino: someone who suffers from albinism, an organic anomaly characterized by the absence or great lack of pigment in the skin, eyes, and hair

Alcaide: mayor; magistrate; official to whom the mayor delegates his power in a certain section of a city

Alcaide-mor: justice of the peace; the administrative and judicial magistrate of a province or district; local magistrate

Alferes [ê]: the least graduated of junior officers

Alma: soul

Alqueire: bushel

Alteza [ê]: an honorary title given to the kings, princes, and officials of the high court and to some of the royal councils

Aluguel [é]: rent

Amparo: the act of protection of the Indian by the Spaniard, specifically teaching him the trade, bringing him up

Anata: traditional tax paid to the Apostolic Chamber

Anexo [écs]: annex; a church dependent upon another one; rural district joined to a borough

Anteiglesia: atrium or portico (of a church); parish church; parish or district

Apeamento: surveying; shoring up of a building

Aprendiz: apprentice

Aprovação: Approval

Arcebispado ou Arquidiocese: archbishopric, an ecclesiastical territory under the jurisdiction of an archbishop

Arcebispo: archbishop, the bishop of a metropolitan church to which other bishops are subordinate

Arciprestado: land under the jurisdiction of an archpriest composed of several parishes

Arcipreste [ê]: archpriest, a parish priest who also presides over several other parish priests

Arquivo: archives, place where records are kept; (office) files, file

Arrendamento: to rent

Arroba [ô]: weight measure equivalent to 25 lbs. of 16 oz. each; liquid measurement equivalent to about 3 gallons; the fourth part of a quintal

Árvore genealógica: Family tree

Ascendência: ascendency, a series of ancestors

Asilo Político: asylum, shelter

Assinatura hológrafa: holographic signature

Assinatura sinalática: signal signature

Assinatura: signature

Audiência: regional high court; civil tribunal that dealt with the civil and criminal actions of the last resort

Auto: judicial sentence; warrant; edict; various legal documents both judicial and administrative, not including wills or inventories

Auto-da-fé: a public procedure in which those accused by the Inquisition were sentenced

Avaliador [ô]: Evaluator

Bacharel: holder of a bachelor's degree

Bairro: city ward

Basco: a person who is from/ lives in the country of Basco.

Bastardo: bastard

Beneficiário: beneficence, charity; welfare organization or institution, charity organization, public welfare office

Benefício de Inventário: (law) benefit of inventory, a right granted to heir to accept inheritance without being obligated to pay debts amounting to more than the inheritance

Benefício: benefit, profit

Bens de Raiz: property, goods, fee

Bispado: bishopric

Bispo: bishop

Braça: length measure, length formed by having both arms of a person open and extended, which commonly is taken to be 6 feet of width

Bula: papal bull or proclamation

Capítulo: chapter; a collegiate body that brings together representatives of members of a religious institute at different levels.

c.c.: Casado com-- Married with

c.m.c.: Contrato matrimonial com-- Marriage contract with

Cabido: chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church

Cabildo colonial: name given to municipal corporations instituted in Latin America during the colonial period that were in charge of the general administration of colonial cities

Cabo: Corporal; military graduate who, in the hierarchy of our Armed Forces, is above the solder, in the Army; above a first-class sailor in the navy; and above a first-class soldier in aeronautics

Caboclo ou Curiboca [ô]: mestizo individual; child of white with indigenous

Cabra: mestizo individual; a mix of black with native or native with white

Caçador [ô]: hunter

Cacique: the chief or ruler of some Indian tribes; local ruler

Cadastro: register

Cadeira: chair; position or place of honor and authority or dignity

Cafuz or Cafuzo: regarding black or indigenous mestizos

Câmara municipal: city council; city hall

Canônico: canonical; canonry (canons collectively)

Capelania: benefice or foundation subject to certain obligations; lay foundation without ecclesiastical intervention

Capelão: a priest who has a chaplaincy, or says mass in a private chapel and who is paid by a trust fund or private individual to administer the affairs of said fund or individual

Capitania-geral: general captain; territorial demarcation governed by a General Captain during the colonial era

Capitulação: the act of contract making

Capítulo conventual: conventual chapter; the collegiate body of a monastery or a religious house with consultative and deliberative functions of varying frequency

Capítulo geral: general chapter; collegiate body, representative of a religious institute, which has the supreme authority

Caravela: f, caravel, small ship with a lateen sails used in the 15c. during the Portuguese exploration

Cardeal: cardinal, member of the Pope's electoral college

Carisma: charisma

Carta de alforria: freedom letter; document given to slave by its owner

Casa: house

Casta: caste; racial lineage

Catalão: a native of Catalonia; a romance language spoken in Catalonia and other Spanish regions of Spain that were part of the old Crown of Aragon

Catedral: cathedral

Catelhano: a native of Castille; Castillian Spanish; Spanish

Catequese [ê]: Sunday school; a school attended by children on Sundays for religious instruction

Catequista: catechist; someone who teaches precepts of religious doctrine in catechism classes

Cavalaria: cavalry; a troop of soldiers serving on horseback

Cavaleiro: knight

Censo [ê]: census of population, etc.

Certificado: certificate

Clérigo: clergy; the individual belonging to the social body of the Church

Codicilo: codicil; amendment to a will

Colegiada: collegiate church

Coletor: collector of taxes, or of collection for the church

Comadre: midwife; godmother

Comarca: region or district

Comparecer [ê]: to appear officially

Compromisso: pledge, commitment, promise

Conceder [ê]: grant; give permission or consent for something to happen

Concerto [ê]: agreement; contract; arrangement

Cunhado: brother-in-law

Cunhada: sister-in-law

Condado: earldom; courtship; county

Conde [ô]: count; eral; overseer

Cónego: canon; one who observes and follows a canon

Confirmação: confirmation

Confrade: brother or member of a brotherhood

Confraria: brotherhood; voluntary association in which the brothers are grouped together for mutual assistance both in material and spiritual terms

Consanguinidade: consanguinity; kinship; blood relationship

Conselho da Índia: the royal council that governed the colonies

Conselho de Portugal: council of Portugal

Conselho Provincial: provincial council; an organization that brings together the advisors of the Provincial Superior

Conselho [ê]: council

Consignação: consignment; deposit (of money)

Consorte [ó]: spouse; partner associate

Corregedor [ô]: Portuguese magistrate; mayor appointed by the King

Cortesão: courtier; an individual who attends the court of a sovereign

Crioulo: Creole; Latin-American colonial born of European parents

Crisma: Chrism, consecrated oil

Cúria: a set of ecclesiastical organizations and entities that cooperate with the bishop

Cursivo: cursive

Curtidor [ô]: tanner; one who does tanning

Curtimento [ê]: tanning; treatment of animal skin with chemical organic substance such as tannin

Datar: typing or putting something in a database

Deão: dean

Decanato: deanship, deanery

Defunctus sine prole: deceased without offspring

Delação: reporting

Dentição: dentition; formation, natural appearance and growth of teeth

Departamento [ê]: department

Dia de Reis: Day of the Kings, Twelfth Night, a celebration on the 5th and 6th of January of the Three Wise Men that visited the Christ child.

Dicionário corográfico: geographical dictionary

Diocese [é]: diocese, unit of the Catholic Church presided over by a bishop

Direito canónico: canon law; the set of laws and regulations made or adopted by the leaders of the Church

Disenteria: dysentery

Divisão: division

Dízimo: tithing; monetary contributions to the church

Dom (título): don; a title of respect prefixed to Christian names. In Portuguese, this is only used for Royalty and members of the Royal house.

Dona [ô]: respectful title for women. In Portuguese, this is only used for Royalty and members of the Royal house.

Dote [ó]: dowry; that property which a woman takes into marriage

Ducado: the coin of gold or silver that the Catholic monarchs created

Duque: duke; a title of honor that is hierarchically after that of the prince

Ecônomo: priest temporarily in charge of a parish

Emancipação: emancipation; the act of freeing from servitude

Empréstimo: Loan

Encomendeiro: one who had Indians assigned to him in a trust

Enteado: step-child

Entrambos: both

Episcopal: of the bishop

Escalduno: native to the Basque County, which includes a Spanish part and a French part

Escarlatina: Scarlet fever

Escravo de aluguel [é]: slaves for hire

Escravo de campo: slaves who worked in rural areas

Escravo de ganho: a slave who is offered several types of service, such as cargo transportation, barber shop, washing clothes, or even manufacturing some medicines

Escravo de lida: slaves of heavy toil with little rest

Escravo doméstico: domestic slave

Escravo: slave

Escravos do engenho de cana [ê]: slaves of the sugarcane mill

Escrevente [ê]: scribe

Escriba: scribe

Escritura: scripture

Escudo português: Portuguese Escudo; the currency used after the Real and before the Euro was adopted as the official currency

Esmola [ó]: alms; given out of charity; cash reward to the church where mass was celebrated by someone

Espírito: spirit

Estalagem: inn

Estalajadeiro: innkeeper

Executor [z...ô]: executor

Fábrica: factory

Fânega: Measure for cereals, equivalent to 100 kilograms, in current use at the borders of Rio Grande do Sul

Fé: faith

Febre tifóide [é]: typhoid fever

Feminino: feminine

Ferrajaria: Hardware industry

Feudo: feud; in the Middle Ages, land or sometimes; right granted by the feudal lord (overlord) to the vassal in exchange for certain services and mutual loyalty

Fiança: guarantee; responsibility assumed by a third party (guarantor), in order to guarantee the payment of an obligation assumed by another person (the debtor), according to the conditions established in the contract

Fidalgo: a word used in Portugal that means 'son-of-something', who had something in goods or noble heritage

Filho adotivo: adoptive son

Filha adotivo: adoptive daughter

Filho bastardo: bastard child; a child born out of the bounds of matrimony

Filho ilegítimo: illegitimate child; a child whose parents are not married

Filho legítimo: legitimate child

Filho natural: natural child

Filho póstumo: posthumous son; one who is born after the death of the father

Filho(a) exposto(a) [s...ô]: child abandoned by biological parents

Filiação legítima: legitimate affiliation; one that results from parents legally married to each other

Filiação: affiliation

Finado: dead

Floresta [é]: forest

Fólio [ô]: (printing) A sheet of paper or parchment that is folded and printed on all four sides; a system of page numbering that numbers each 'leaf,' using frente and verso to distinguish the first and second side

Fólio frente: Part of a folio numbering system and is the front side of a book page that is numbered; this is usually the right page of a book

Fólio verso: Part of a folio numbering system and is the back or reverse side of a book page that is not numbered; this is usually the left page of a book

Foral/Carta de foral: A legal document given to a city, usually granted by the crown, which established a civic municipality, organized an administrative counsel, and outlined citizens' rights, privileges, and responsibilities

Foro [ó]: forum; right, privileges in general that the law grants to someone

Fórum: forum; building where the Judiciary Power functions and where legal issues are debated and judged

Fossário: Person in charge of a grave

Fraternidade: fraternity

Frei: Abbreviation for Freire

Freguesia: parish

Freire: religious; a term used to designate members of Military Orders

Gêmeo: twin

Gêmeos fraternos: fraternal twins

Gêmeos idênticos: identical twins

Genro [ê]: son-in-law

Gota [ô]: gout, grop

Governo do Rio da Prata e do Paraguai [ê]: Government of the River Plate and Paraguay; the territorial division of the Spanish Empire in the area of the River Plate basin in South America and whose capital was Asunción

Grávida: pregnant

Grêmio: guild, society, association, brotherhood

Gripe: flu or cold

Guarda: guard

Habilitação de casamento [ê]: marriage qualification

Heráldica: heraldry

Herança vacante: vacant inheritance; the heirs are not known

Herança: inheritance

Hóstia: circular blade of unleavened wheat dough that the priest consecrates and offers to the faithful during communion on the occasion of the Mass

Hostiário: box to store the circular blades of unleavened wheat dough that are not yet consecrated

ill.: illegitimate; abbreviation for illegitimate

Imóvel: fixed property

Impedimento matrimonial: marital impediment; absence of legal conditions or the existence of a reason presented by the deceived contractor, which prevents the marriage celebration

Impedimento [ê]: impediment; act or effect of preventing

Imposto de Passagem [ô]: tax for passage; a term used in the Order of Malta to designate the fee paid to the Order by candidates to the religious profession, with a view to definitive entry into it as professed nuns or knights, corresponding to a symbolic form of remission of the obligation to stay in the central convent in Malta

Incógnito: incognito; unknown

Indenização: indemnity; security or protection against a loss or other financial burden

Indias: Indies; the American continent, including the Caribbean, Mexico, Central American, and South America

Índio: Indian; a person living with the Indians who adopts their customs, a social designation

Indulgência: indulgence

Infantil: childish, or relative to childhood

Intendente: quartermaster

Inumação: burial ‘Item,’ used to introduce a new fact or statement, or, more frequently, each new article or particular in an enumeration, especially in a formal list or document, as an inventory, or will

Jesuíta: Jesuit; a member of the Society of Jesus, a religious order founded by Santo Inácio de Loyola in 1534

Jornaleiro: journeyman, day laborer

Jovem: youth

Judeu: Jewish

Juiz de primeira instância: judge of the first instance; a magistrate who knows and judges common causes, since he has original competence and whose decisions are appealed to the immediately superior instance

Juro: interest

Latifúndio: large landed estate typical of Andalucia and large parts of Latin America

Lavrador: farmer

Legítimo: legitimate, lawful

Légua: league (3.5 miles); a land measurement that varies depending on the nation, equivalent to approximately 5.572m

Leilão: auction

Leste [é]: east

Liberto: freedom, liberty; privelge, right

Licença: license

Licenciado: licensed

Lícito: lawful

Liquidação: liquidation

Livros paroquiais: Parish books

Loja [ó]: store

Lugarejo [ê]: village

Madrasta: stepmother

Madrinha: godmother

Magistratura: judiciary; magistrate

Mameluco: child of Indian with white

Matriz: The main or principal church

Mancipação: voluntary transfer of a property in the presence of witnesses.

Manda: [Archaic] a legacy, testamentary disposition.

Mar do Norte [ó]: Atlantic Ocean; North Sea

Mar do Sul: Pacific Ocean; South Sea

Marquês: marquis; in ancient times, a lord over the lands situated on the frontiers of a kingdom; in later times, a noble title between that of count and duke.

Matrícula: register, list, roster, roll census.

Meio-irmão: half-brother

Meia-irmã: half-sister

Mendigo: beggar

Mercado: market

Mestiço: mestizo; an individual born to a father and mother of different races.

Missa: Mass, the celebration of the Eucharist

Missão: mission; parish under control of one of the religious orders

Monsenhor [ô]: monsignor; title used in many countries to designate Bishops.

Morador [ô]: resident

Moreno(a) [ê]: one who has a skin tone between white and brown or between brown and black.

Morgado: linked patrimony that could not be solid or divided and that was passed on to the eldest son, due to the death of the one who owned it.

Mourisco: Moorish, those baptized Moors that lived in Spain and the colonies; Mexico, a mixture of Spanish and mulatto blood.

Mulato(a): one who is of mixed-race of the white and black races.

Município: municipality; the territorial jurisdiction which includes the inhabitants governed by a town council.

nas.: born

Natural: native of, born in a given locality; born outside of the marriage contract

Naturalizado: naturalized, when a foreigner has acquired the rights of a natural citizen

Natureza [ê]: nature

Nau: f, ship, carrak, a trading ship with a square sail developed in the 14c. – 15c.

Navio negreiro: slave ship

Navio: ship

Negro [ê]: negro, black or dark-skinned, native of various tribes of Africa

Nobiliário: nobiliary, peerage list; pertaining to the nobility

Nobre [ó]: noble

Nomeação: appointment, election, nomination, commission

Nomear: to elect or appoint; to name, to mention by name

Nono [ô]: ninth

Notário: notary; authorized official for preparing and certifying public actions, contracts, deeds, bonds, wills, etc.

Nubente [ê]: one who is about to get married

Num.: number

Núpcias: marriage, wedding, nuptials

Óbito: death

Obituário: obituary

Oblato: oblate; from the Latin oblatus, passive past participle of the verb offerre (to offer). The term designates a person who offers himself to God or a child who is offered by his parents. This designation included mainly children who, in this way, were entrusted to the care and a religious community, a habit that has been documented since the origins of monasticism and which would be officially suppressed only with the Council of Trent (1545-1563). It also designates a person linked to the spirituality of a religious order or institute

Oferenda [ê]: one who gives offers

Oferta [é]: offering

Ofício: occupation, job, work, craft, trade; office, post, position; function

Oleiro: potter

Onça [ô]: English weight measurement equivalent to 28.35 grams

Onomástica: onomastics; study and linguistic investigation of proper names

Oração pelas almas do Purgatório: prayer for souls in Purgatory

Ordem militar: religious order of knights, such as Santiago, Calatrava, Alcántara, Malta, San Juan de Jerusalem

Órfão: orphan

Ouvidor [ô]: ombudsman; an official appointed to investigate individuals' complaints against maladministration, especially that of public authorities

Ouvidoria: ecclesiastical structure similar to the Archdiocese that brings together several parishes, under the coordination of the Ombudsman priest

Pacto antenupcial or convenção antenupcial: prenuptial agreement.

Padrasto: stepfather.

Padrinho: godfather.

Página or Pag.: page, leaf of a book.

Pai incógnito: unknown father.

Paleografia: paleography; study of ancient writing, its forms, and variations over the centuries, including its deciphering and interpretation.

Panteão: pantheon; building dedicated to the memory of illustrious men who made their homeland great and where their ashes are kept.

Pardo: A person of mixed race; generally, a mixture of one part of Spanish blood, two parts of Indian blood, and one part of Negro blood; dark, mulatto.

Pároco: parish priest.

Paróquia: parish, territory covered by the spiritual jurisdiction of a parish priest.

Paroquiano: parishioner.

Pastor [ô]: shepherd.

Patriarcado: patriarchate; ecclesiastical circumscription with a certain legal autonomy, equivalent to a Metropolis of Metropolises and attributed to episcopal headquarters highly venerable for their antiquity and apostolic roots.

Patrimônio: inheritance.

Pé: foot; unit of length that corresponds, in the metric decimal system, to 12 inches.

Peninsular: a peninsular, born in Spain or Portugal.

Permutar: to exchange; usually of two public or ecclesiastical offices or benefices.

Plebeu: commoner.

Poder [ê]: ability; power.

Polegada: inch.

Prado: land covered with herbaceous plants suitable for pasture or forage for cattle.

Prefeito: an ecclesiastical administrator who governs an apostolic prefecture, or a Cardinal who presides over a congregation of the Roman Curia.

Prelado: prelate, ecclesiastical dignitary, superior of a convent.

Presbítero: priest; one who receives the second degree of the Sacrament of Order.

Presídio: a prison; a fortress, a stronghold.

Pretendente [ê]: claimant, seeker, petitioner; a suitor.

Primeira instância: first instance; the first hierarchical jurisdiction, the first body of Justice to which the citizen must address a conflict resolution request.

Primo coirmão, primo carnal, primo primeiro, or primo em primeiro grau: first cousin.

Primo cruzado bilateral: bilateral cross-cousin; he who is both the son of the father's sister and the son of the mother's brother.

Primo cruzado: son of a mother's brother or son of a father's brother.

Primo em segundo grau: second cousin.

Primo em terceiro grau: third cousin.

Primo paralelo [é], primo direito or primo direto [é]: parallel cousin or right cousin or direct cousin; son of a brother of the father or son of a sister of the mother of an individual.

Priorado: priory; religious community in which the prior or prioress performs his/her duties.

Privilégio: privilege.

Proclama: marriage notice, reading in the church by the priest and/or published by the civil registry officer.

Procurador [ô]: proxy; attorney.

Prole [ó]: offspring.

Propriedade: property.

Prorrogação: extension, postponement, delay.

Protesto [é]: protest.

Protocolo [ó]: protocol, a collection of legal documents that have been bound into a book.

Prova[ó]: proof

Província: province.

Pureza de sangue [ê]: blood purity; people who were not descendants of Moors, Jews, mulattos, Indians, and blacks.

Quaresma [é]: Lent, a 40-day period between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.

Quarto voto [ó]: Fourth vote, a particular and extraordinary vote of some religious institutes issued according to their own tradition.

Quinta: country house, manor, villa.

Quintal: weight measurement, equivalent to 100 pounds or four arrobas or 58,758 kilograms.

Quitação: settlement, declaration releasing a debtor from a certain amount of credit.

Ração: ration

Rancho: ranch; shack, shanty

Real Cédula: Royal Decree-- reasonable order issued by the King of Spain between the 15th and 19th centuries. Its content resolved some conflicts of legal relevance. It established some guidelines for legal conduct, created an institution, appointed a royal position, granted a personal or collective right, or ordered some concrete action

Real (p. Réis): a real or a form of currency from 1430 to 1911 in Portugal

Recibo: receipt (document acknowledging payment)

Reclamação: claim, demand, objection, protest, complain

Redibição: an annulation or cancelation of a purchase or a sale of a movable or semi-movable item by the buyer upon the discovery of hidden defects

Regimento [ê]: regiment

Registro: register

Regular: regular-- monk or priest who is a member of a religious order that takes vows

Religioso [ô]: religious

Repartição: distributions of lands after reconquest

Requerimento [ê]: request, requisition, demand, summons

Revocação or revogação: revocation, annulment

Sacristão: sacristan, sexton, the individual who took care of the ecclesiastical cemeteries.

Sangria: bleeding, for therapeutic purposes.

Santa Sé: Episcopal Headquarters of Rome.

Secretário: secretary.

Seguro: safe, secure; insurance policy.

Sela [é]: a saddle.

Seleiro: saddler; one who manufactures saddles.

Senhoril: nobly, lordly, particular or characteristic of a lord or noble.

Serviço: service.

Setentrional: northern.

Sigla: paleographic term, an abbreviation by use of initial letters to represent entire words.

Sineiro: one who commands the ringing of church bells, from sino: a large bell that hangs in a bell tower.

Sínodo: A synod, an ancient name given to the ecclesiastical councils of a diocese.

Sobrinho-neto [é]: grand-nephew (niece).

Solar: manor house, country house.

Soldado: salary, wages; soldier's pay.

Sub-rogação: subrogation, substitution or change of thing or person, by something who follows in your duties and acts in your place.

Sufragâneo: suffragan, one who is under the jurisdiction or authority of another.

Sumo pontífice: Pope.

Tanoeiro: cooper, hooper, one who makes barrels.

Tarifa: tariff, catalog of goods with current prices per unit or type.

Tataraneto or trineto [é]: great-great-grandson (granddaughter) or great-grandson (granddaughter).

Tataravô or trisavô: great-great-grandfather (grandmother) or great-grandfather (grandmother).

Tenente [ê]: lieutenant.

Terceira Ordem Regular de São Francisco: Third Regular Order of San Francisco, an order of the Franciscan brotherhood, of the Catholic Church, founded by Francisco de Assis in 1221.

Término: the end, to end.

Testador [ô]: tastator, one who makes a will.

Testamenteiro: testamentary.

Testamento cerrado: a will that is written in secret and then sealed before a notary and witnesses to be opened after the death of the testator.

Testamento público: a will that is prepared in a public notary, requiring two witnesses who must attend to everything, which reveals his/her willingness to dispose of assets after his/her death.

Testamento [ê]: testament.

Tia: aunt,

Tio: uncle.

Tio-avô: great-uncle (aunt).

Tio-bisavô: great-great-uncle.

Título: title; document with legal value that validates any right.

Transferência: transfer.

Tribunal: court.

Tributável: taxable.

Tributo: tax, a compulsory tax that the population pays to the state for services and goods.

Trigo: wheat.

Trisavô [ó]: great-great-grandfather (grandmother).

Troca [ó]: trade.

Tutela [é]: guardianship.

Tutelado: guardian.

Unção dos enfermos (extrema-unção): anointing of the sick, Catholic sacrament dedicated to the sick, performed with oil.

Usufruto: usufruct. That is to say, the right and privilege to the use and profits of something, usually a property, that originally belonged to another. A formal word that is often used in Notarial documents to refer to inheritances.

Ut supra: (Latin), as above.

Varão: male, undefined

Varíola: smallpox

Viático: viaticum, the sacrament of the Eucharist administered to the sick in danger of death

Vicariato: vicariate, territory, or area of jurisdiction under the responsibility of a vicar

Vice-rei: viceroy, what governs a state subordinate to a kingdom

Vice-reinado: area governed by a viceroy

Vigário: vicar, the religious functionary who, as an assistant, takes full charge when his superior is gone, the functionary in charge of a parish

Vigília: vigil, evening celebration on the eve of a religious fast

Vila: village

Visconde [ô]: viscount, a title of nobility, inferior to that of count and superior to that of baron

Visita pastoral: pastoral visit, an obligation imposed on Catholic bishops to visit the entire diocese, at least once every five years

Vizinho: neighbor

Votos perpétuos: perpetual vows, public vows issued by a religious person, with a perpetual character, whose nature and effects are sanctioned by canonical norms

Votos privados: private votes

Votos públicos: public votes

Votos religiosos: religious votes

Votos simples: simple votes

Votos solenes: solemn votes, issued by members of religious orders and recognized by the Church as such

Votos temporários: temporary votes, cast by members of religious institutes

Voto [ó]: a vote, election; promise

Xará: m.f, namesake

Xerife [sh]: m, sheriff

Xilogravura: f, wood engraving, woodcut

Zarpar: v, to weigh anchors, when a ship leaves the harbor

Zelador(a): m.f, caretaker, janitor

Zelo [ê]: m, care, zeal; diligent.