Does the word "saudade" only exists in Portuguese? The word "saudade" is not peculiarity of the Portuguese language. Because derived from Latin, it exists in other Romance languages. Spanish is soledad. The Catalan soledat. The meaning, however, is not the same as that of Portuguese, it is closer to "home nostalgia", the desire to return home. Portuguese originality was the extension of the term to situations other than loneliness felt by the lack of home: longing is the pain of an absence that we are happy to feel. Even in the semantic field, however, there is correspondent, in Romanian, but in another word: pain (it is said "durere"). It is a feeling that exists in Arabic, in the expression alistiyáqu '' ilal watani". Arabic may even have contributed to the form and meaning of our "saudade" as much as Latin.