adoleta
Portuguese, noun/a.doˈle.tɐ/
adoleta is spelled A-D-O-L-E-T-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 128,503rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adoleta is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a children's game similar to pattycake in which two people alternately clap their own and each other's hands, often to the accompaniment of…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “brincadeira infantil onde os participantes batem na mão um do outro enquanto cantam a cantiga "Adoleta"”.
What does adoleta mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea children's game similar to pattycake in which two people alternately clap their own and each other's hands, often to the accompaniment of the nursery rhyme "Adoleta"
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. brincadeira infantil onde os participantes batem na mão um do outro enquanto cantam a cantiga "Adoleta"
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.
How do you pronounce adoleta?
- Brazil /a.doˈle.tɐ/
- Portugal /ɐ.duˈle.tɐ/
- Portugal [ɐ.ðuˈle.tɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adoleta
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adoleta in Portuguese?
adoleta appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).