arenito
Portuguese, noun/a.ɾeˈni.tu/
arenito is spelled A-R-E-N-I-T-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 55,453rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arenito is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sandstone (sand/clay sedimentary rock)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “denominação comum das rochas sedimentares dendríticas resultantes da compactação e litificação de um material…”.
What does arenito mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesandstone (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. denominação comum das rochas sedimentares dendríticas resultantes da compactação e litificação de um material granular da dimensão das areias, composto normalmente por quartzo, feldspatos, micas e outras impurezas
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 arenito
- arenitos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arenito?
- Brazil /a.ɾeˈni.tu/
- Portugal /ɐ.ɾɨˈni.tu/
- Portugal /ɐ.ɾɨ.ˈni.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 arenito
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arenito in Portuguese?
arenito appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).