arcobotante
Portuguese, noun/ˌaʁ.ku.boˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
arcobotante is spelled A-R-C-O-B-O-T-A-N-T-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese, the 236,506th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arcobotante is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “flying buttress (buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arco da arquitetura gótica apoiado nas paredes externas das construções para aliviar o peso das abóbodas…”.
What does arcobotante mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineflying buttress (buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. arco da arquitetura gótica apoiado nas paredes externas das construções para aliviar o peso das abóbodas permitindo grandes aberturas na forma de janelas ou rosáceas
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 arcobotante
- arcobotantes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arcobotante?
- Brazil /ˌaʁ.ku.boˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil [ˌah.ku.boˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
- /ˌaɾ.ku.boˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is arcobotante in Portuguese?
arcobotante appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).