abside
The verdict
“abside” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - compartimento semicircular com um teto abobadado, que encontrava-se geralmente na extremidade de uma construção
Corpus desk
Index PT-abside · abside · Portuguese
abside · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abside |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “abside” em português
Rare enough to double-check
abside is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for abside in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is abside, spelled A-B-S-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1compartimento semicircular com um teto abobadado, que encontrava-se geralmente na extremidade de uma construção
- 2em basílicas romanas antigas, local semicircular com teto abobadado, localizado no final da nave principal, aonde se encontrava o juiz, juntamente com o tribunal
- 3parede semicircular ou poligonal por detrás do altar-mor e que fecha a nave central de uma igreja
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abside appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ha ahi os velhos interesses mortalmente feridos, que, não podendo defender-se como legitimos, buscavam, até agora, sanctificar-se pela poesia do passado, indo esconder as rugas asquerosas na luz frouxa da abside da antiga cathedral, mas que hoje se proclamam em nome do direito com gritos de furor e de ameaça.
Fizeram-se algumas modificações no plano das igrejas edificadas no XIII seculo; taes como o côro, mais comprido que fôra antes; as naves lateraes, que se prolongavam em roda do santuario (capella-mór), ficaram depois aformoseadas com outras capellas, excepto quando as igrejas terminavam na curva da abside; e n'esse caso as naves limitavam-se aos dois lado…
This word in other languages
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