portuguesado

Macanese

Alternative forms

• portuguezado

Etymology

From Portuguese aportuguesado (“made Portuguese”). By surface analysis, português +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔɾ.tu.ɡeˈza.du/

Adverb

portuguesado

1. Portuguese-style, in a way reminiscent of European Portuguese

   falâ portuguesado ― to speak in a Portuguese manner (as opposed to having a patuá accent); to use Portuguese expressions or accent when speaking

Usage notes

• The phrase falâ portuguesado refers to both when a person speaks Portuguese and when a person speaks Macanese.
• In Macanese, examples of portuguesado would include the usage of /ʁ/ in ⟨rr⟩ and word-initial ⟨r⟩, as well as pronouncing ⟨d⟩ as /ð/.
• There is no verb *portuguesâ in Macanese.

Related terms

• torâ português (“to try hard to speak Portuguese correctly, with an affected pronunciation”, literally “to toast Portuguese”)

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#p
• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “portuguesado”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 517