The first letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

1. license; permit (legal document giving official permission to do something)
2. authorization; permission
3. permission given to an employee to miss work for some time (due to ill health, for example); leave

Contraction of de esse (“of/from that (masculine, near you)”).

1. project (planned endeavor)
2. plan (drawing showing technical details)
3. plan (set of intended actions)
4. draft (early version of a written work) of a law
5. (slang) wannabe

third-person singular present indicative of ser

The fifteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

1. Apache (one of the native Apache people of the southwestern United States)
2. Apache (a violent Parisian gangster during the late 19th century and early 20th century)