amento
Portuguese, noun/aˈmẽ.tu/
amento is spelled A-M-E-N-T-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 118,367th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “catkin (botany: a type of inflorescence)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does amento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecatkin (botany: a type of inflorescence)
suffix
- 1
masculinealternative form of -mento
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of amento
- amentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce amento?
- Brazil /aˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ɐˈmẽ.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 amento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amento in Portuguese?
amento appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).