The publisher said the runner-up was “xurdir”, a regionalism that means “struggling to survive” and the third was the English import “selfie”, which has been adopted by the Portuguese, meaning to take a photograph of oneself.
Last year was a stage for two huge corruption cases in Portugal: The “Face Oculta”, case involving an alleged corruption ring designed to favour a business group run by Manuel Godinho, and the “Labirinto” operation, related to Golden Visas.
The end of the year also saw the detention of former Prime Minister José Sócrates, on suspicion of corruption, money laundering and tax fraud.
The winner of the word of the year competition on the web page www.infopedia.pt, “corr-upção” took 25 percent of the votes out of 10 short-listed words.