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arcaico

Portuguese, adjective/aʁˈkaj.ku/

arcaico is spelled A-R-C-A-I-C-O (7 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,037th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arcaico is a Portuguese adjective meaning “archaic (old-fashioned or antiquated)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “antigo, fora de uso”.

What does arcaico mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    archaic (old-fashioned or antiquated)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. antigo, fora de uso

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 arcaico

  • arcaica feminine
  • arcaicos masculine plural
  • arcaicas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce arcaico?

  • Brazil /aʁˈkaj.ku/
  • Brazil [ahˈkaɪ̯.ku]
  • /aɾˈkaj.ku/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to arcaico

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is arcaico in Portuguese?

arcaico appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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