acetábulo
Portuguese, noun/a.seˈta.bu.lu/
acetábulo is spelled A-C-E-T-Á-B-U-L-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 138,138th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acetábulo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “acetabulum (bony cup that receives the head of the thigh bone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does acetábulo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineacetabulum (bony cup that receives the head of the thigh bone)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of acetábulo
- acetábulos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acetábulo?
- Brazil /a.seˈta.bu.lu/
- Portugal /ɐ.sɨˈta.bu.lu/
- Portugal [ɐ.sɨˈta.βu.lu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acetábulo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acetábulo in Portuguese?
acetábulo appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).