I don't see the point of this article...
Two things in different languages have similar names. so what?
Portugal's Constipacao isn't English's Constipation
Italy's Carrozza isn't Portuguese's Carroca
Spanish Embarazada isn't English Embarassed...
Two things in different languages have similar names. so what?
Portugal's Constipacao isn't English's Constipation
Italy's Carrozza isn't Portuguese's Carroca
Spanish Embarazada isn't English Embarassed...
Spanish oficina (office) and Portuguese oficina (workshop).
Spanish largo (long) and Portuguese largo (wide) or even music's largo (slow), although the music one is probably part of most languages by now so it's a matter of semantics.
Spanish asignatura (subject) and Portuguese assinatura (signature).
Spanish carpeta (folder) and English carpet (alfombra).
Spanish librería (bookstore) and English library (biblioteca).
Spanish parientes (relatives) and English parents (padres).
if you say in Portugal you have 'a constipação' you mean you have a cold...
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constipa%C3%A7%C3%A3o links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold
Or you could use resfriado which means a cold but also contains the lexical morpheme/root -fri- (frío which means cold) so it might sound nicer and be easier to remember.
In Portugal it would be Obstipacao or Prisao de Ventre