abside
Portuguese, noun
abside is spelled A-B-S-I-D-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 159,424th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abside is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “apse (semicircular projection from a building)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “compartimento semicircular com um teto abobadado, que encontrava-se geralmente na extremidade de uma…”.
What does abside mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineapse (semicircular projection from a building)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. compartimento semicircular com um teto abobadado, que encontrava-se geralmente na extremidade de uma construção 2. em basílicas romanas antigas, local semicircular com teto abobadado, localizado no final da nave principal, aonde se encontrava o juiz, juntamente com o tribunal 3. parede semicircular ou poligonal por detrás do altar-mor e que fecha a nave central de uma igreja
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of abside
- absides plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to abside
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abside in Portuguese?
abside appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).