Content and Maintenance is an expression existing in the archaic Portuguese language and which means the equivalent to "held and maintained", in the contemporary language. These terms are still used today in a legal context to define people who are financially supported by an individual in the form of "lovers".
Etymologically, teúda and manteúda would originate in the Portuguese language from the Spanish expression "maintain", which means "maintained".
In popular language, keep is a woman who is financially supported by a married man, being treated as if she were a second wife. already the word teúda, unlike keep, defines the woman only as the lover, without any kind of financial support from the partner.
Both words and their meanings, whether together or separately, have a strong relationship with the act of infidelity, betrayal and immorality - since, according to the national Civil Code, marriage must be based on the obligation to "mutually guard faithfulness marital".
The expression can have a pejorative sense, being connoted as a synonym for prostitution or the action of a prostitute. However, this type of interpretation of teúda and mainteúda is more popular and social than historical, as the figure of the lover has always been associated by society as a prostitute.
The teúda and maintained expression was present in novels and novels, such as Gabriela - soap opera inspired by the novel Gabriela clove and cinnamon by Jorge Amado - and Tieta, written by Aguinaldo Silva, Ana Maria Moretzsohn and Ricardo Linhares.
