Portolan
German, noun[pɔʁtoˈlaːn]
Portolan is spelled P-O-R-T-O-L-A-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written German, the 618,004th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Portolan is a German masculine noun meaning “portolan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Sammlung von Texten, Bildern und Karten, die nautische Informationen für Seefahrer enthalten”.
What does Portolan mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineportolan
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sammlung von Texten, Bildern und Karten, die nautische Informationen für Seefahrer enthalten
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Portolan
- Portolans genitive
- Portolane plural
- Portolanen dative definite plural
- Portulan alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Portolan?
- [pɔʁtoˈlaːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Portolan in German?
Portolan appears about once in every 95 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).