fidalgo
Sign in to savethumb|right|Portrait of a Young Fidalgo; a 16th-century rendition of a young Portuguese nobleman.
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thumb|right|Portrait of a Young Fidalgo; a 16th-century rendition of a young Portuguese nobleman.
Fidalgo (, ), from Galician and Portuguese —equivalent to a nobleman, but sometimes literally translated into English as "nobleman" —is a traditional title of Portuguese nobility and Brazilian nobility that refers to a member of the titled or untitled nobility. A fidalgo is comparable in some ways to the French gentilhomme (the word also implies nobility by birth or by charge), and to the Italian nobile but having a higher rank to the British baronet as being a part of the aristocracy, not a commoner. The title was abolished after the overthrow of the monarchy in 1910 by the republic and is also a family surname.
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