lusitanian

comparative more lusitanian · superlative most lusitanian

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Lusitanian.

comparative more Lusitanian · superlative most Lusitanian

1. Of or pertaining to ancient Roman province of Lusitania, its people or culture.

   Synonyms: Lusitan, Lusitanic

2. Of or pertaining to Portugal, its people or culture; Portuguese.

   Lusitanian wines

   Synonyms: Lusitan, Lusitanic

3. biogeographyHaving a range restricted to Iberia and Ireland.

plural Lusitanians

1. A native or inhabitant of ancient Lusitania.

1. An extinct paleo-Hispanic language
2. The variety of Portuguese spoken in Portugal.

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   Eu vai, serves for "I go," "I went," or, "I will go." Adjectives, too, have been deprived of their feminine and plural terminations, so that the language is reduced to a marvellous simplicity, and, with the admixture of a few Malay words, becomes rather puzzling to one who has heard only the pure Lusitanian.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 42