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Escreve-se “Qatar”, “Quatar”, “Catar” ou “Katar”?
Formalmente, a escrita correta é Catar, com C.
A página sobre o Catar na Wikipedia aceita duas definições: Catar (que aparentemente é a mais comum) e Qatar. Ao meu ver, o critério mais decisivo é o da ...
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Qual é a origem de «Tiago» e «Thiago»?
Ao que parece, segundo o Wikipédia e as fontes citadas lá, tens alguma razão, (ênfase minha)
Tiago é, na verdade, uma corruptela da outra versão portuguesa de
Ya'acov que é Iago. O nome Tiago ...
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República Checa ou Chéquia?
Ambos estão corretos.
Em 2016, a República Checa aprovou em parlamento a adoção de um nome abreviado para o país - que, em português europeu*, é Chéquia (em inglês, Czechia). Desde então que ambos os ...
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Where are the patronymic surnames of Hebraic origin?
It says here that before their forced conversions Portuguese Jews had "easily recognizable" names (I don't know if that's true) and it gives a long list. It also says:
Como característica geral, os ...
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Have there ever been alternative names for the days of the week?
Galician-Portuguese had its version of the old Roman names for weekdays, and we find a handful of instances of them in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries in this Corpus do Português and Corpo ...
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Second given name vs. First surname
In Brazil it can be either.
It's not unusual for parents to chose only one surname for their child, usually the father's surname. How can you tell, then, if a middle word is part of one's surname? ...
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Can 'Lourdes' be a boy's name?
According to IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) on https://censo2010.ibge.gov.br/nomes/#/search, in Brazil there were at least 20 ...
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Why are so many Portuguese still surnamed Assunção, in 2022?
Why are so many Portuguese still surnamed Assunção, in 2022?
There aren't actually that many, this is a fairly rare surname. And the current year is not of much relevance, since changing one's ...
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Escreve-se “da” e “do” em sobrenome com letra minúscula ou maiúscula?
Em terras brasileiras, não existe certo ou errado quando se trata de nomes e sobrenomes. O correto é a forma como está escrito no documento oficial de identidade, e ponto final. Sem nenhum estudo ...
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How scholar Baker compares two English translations of “analisou-se”?
Well, “analisou-se as relações” means that someone analysed the relations, so “an analysis” of the relations was indeed carried out. So it is a free translation, but a correct one.
Now, analisou-se as ...
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Second given name vs. First surname
It can be both. You generally can tell because most given names and surnames are distinct. Sometimes the two groups of names are separated by de or dos (though de can also be used to unite two words ...
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Qual é o nome dos conjunto de caracteres numéricos?
De acordo com a Wikipedia, o conjunto dos algarismos é mesmo denominado de algarismos arábicos ou indo-arábicos (ênfase meu):
Algarismos arábicos ou indo-arábicos são os dez dígitos: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
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Have there ever been alternative names for the days of the week?
In 2018 a proposal was made to have the weekdays named «pai, mãe, donzela, velha, guerreiro, artífice e forasteiro».
This proposal, however, did not find wide acceptance.
It was not considered ...
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Second given name vs. First surname
There are actually four different things.
Maternal surnames, such as
José Nóbrega da Silva.
Second given names, such as
Ana Carla Pereira.
The first part of a composite paternal surname, like
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Second given name vs. First surname
In Portugal, the middle word in a name with 3 words will be a first surname.
Usually, people get one or two first names and then two or four family names.
They get family name from the mother's side, ...
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What is the meaning of -son in male Brazilian first names?
Many of these names are inventions. I disagree with people saying that is a recent trend, to make up this names to sound more chic or American. For instance, my friend’s Brazilian grandfather was “...
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What is the meaning of -son in male Brazilian first names?
Having no data to back me up, I would say the first given names ending in -son were imported during the nineteenth century from English speaking countries and, indirectly, from Sweden (where -son used ...
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Como decompor o significado dum título como «Oficial 4º Ajudante»?
Bom, vamos começar pelo princípio... "Oficial 4o Ajudante" não é uma frase, é somente um título, um cargo. Neste caso, para ter uma frase completa, você precisaria do predicado (verbo + ...
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Can 'Lourdes' be a boy's name?
Yes, "Lourdes" can a boy's name, in the sense that giving this name to a boy is not illegal in Brazil, and also that there are dozens of males with this name on record - check Schilive's ...
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Can 'Lourdes' be a boy's name?
Há anos, as Certidões de Nascimento eram feitas em máquinas de datilografia ou até manualmente. E nem sempre quem ia registrar a criança era alfabetizado para poder verificar o erro. Poderia ser erro ...
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Sobrenomes em citações de revistas internacionais
Essa é uma pergunta que se encaixa melhor no Academia SE, sob a tag "personal-name", mas talvez seja válido ter essa informação em português.
Alguns pontos gerais básicos:
se registre no ...
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Second given name vs. First surname
Complementing Centaurus answer, let me remark that very often only the first and last names are used (e.g., when filling a form), simply because that's more practical than dealing with multiple names. ...
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