acanto
Portuguese, noun/aˈkɐ̃.tu/
acanto is spelled A-C-A-N-T-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese, the 145,565th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acanto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “acanthus (any member of the genus Acanthus of prickly herbaceous plants)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “planta da família das Ancantáceas, cultivada ou espontânea, com flores branco-rosadas em forma de espiga…”.
What does acanto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineacanthus (any member of the genus Acanthus of prickly herbaceous plants)
prefix
- 1
acantho- (thorny)
suffix
- 1
-acanthous
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. planta da família das Ancantáceas, cultivada ou espontânea, com flores branco-rosadas em forma de espiga; Acanthus mollis 2. ornamento que representa a folha de Acanthus mollis, o qual era utilizado no capitel da ordem coríntia e da compósita; detalhes arquitetônicos da tradição clássica ou gótica que remetiam a folha de Acanthus mollis
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 acanto
- acantos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acanto?
- Brazil /aˈkɐ̃.tu/
- Portugal /ɐˈkɐ̃.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acanto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acanto in Portuguese?
acanto appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).