animalesco
Portuguese, adjective/a.ni.maˈles.ku/
animalesco is spelled A-N-I-M-A-L-E-S-C-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 105,827th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Animalesco is a Portuguese adjective meaning “animal-like; animalesque (resembling an animal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que tem característica dos animais não-humanos”.
What does animalesco mean in English?
adjective
- 1
animal-like; animalesque (resembling an animal)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que tem característica dos animais não-humanos 2. monstruoso, cruel, bruto, rude
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 animalesco
- animalesca feminine
- animalescos masculine plural
- animalescas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce animalesco?
- Brazil /a.ni.maˈles.ku/
- /a.ni.maˈleʃ.ku/
- Portugal /ɐ.ni.mɐˈleʃ.ku/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is animalesco in Portuguese?
animalesco appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).