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- Os termos “terras lusitanas” e “povo lusitano” são, The terms "Lusitanian lands" and "Lusitanian people" are,
- com alguma frequência, often,
- usados como referência a Portugal e aos seus habitantes. used to refer to Portugal and its inhabitants.
- Este termo foi cunhado pelos romanos, This term was coined by the Romans,
- que acabaram por conquistar toda a península. who eventually conquered the entire peninsula.
- Mas quem foram, então, But who were, then,
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Vocabulary
o clãclan conquistarto conquer, gain, attain costumehabit, custom cunhadocoined estabelecerto establish, set a guerrawar heróihero impérioempire LusitanoLusitanian politeístapolytheistic traídobetrayed tropastroops
Expressions
na verdadeactually, in fact À semelhança deLike
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Comments
Why is it that the verb ter also translates into is said?
Olá! And good question. In the sentence from the Shorty, the relevant part is “terá ganho várias batalhas até à sua morte”. The structure ter + past participle is being used with a future tense form (terá) to express something like “apparently” or “presumably” in the past. In historical or report-style narration, this “future of probability” often gets translated in English with expressions like “is said to have…”, “is believed to have…”, or “reportedly…”, rather than a very literal future tense. So in this context, the meaning is not “The Lusitanian general will have won…”, but rather “The Lusitanian general is said to have won… / supposedly won…”, reflecting that it is based on reports, tradition or uncertain historical sources.