afresco
Portuguese, noun
afresco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “fresco (technique)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “técnica de pintura que consiste em pintar o reboco antes dele secar”.
What does afresco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefresco (technique)
- 2
masculinefresco (painting made using this technique)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. técnica de pintura que consiste em pintar o reboco antes dele secar. 2. pintura obtida com a técnica acima mencionada.
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 afresco
- afrescos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to afresco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is afresco in Portuguese?
afresco appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).