asilo
Portuguese, noun/aˈzi.lu/
asilo is spelled A-S-I-L-O (5 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,015th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Asilo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “asylum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of asilar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “local onde escondiam-se criminosos”.
What does asilo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineasylum
- 2
masculinerefuge, shelter
- 3
masculineold people's home, rest home, nursing home (a place of residence for people who require assistance from carers)
- 4
masculineold people's home, retirement village, retirement home, residence for the elderly (a place of residence for people who require little or no assistance from carers)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of asilar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. local onde escondiam-se criminosos 2. qualquer local onde uma pessoa se encontre a salvo 3. local para assistência social de pessoas como velhos, crianças, sem-tetos e etc
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 asilo
- asilos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce asilo?
- Brazil /aˈzi.lu/
- Portugal /ɐˈzi.lu/
- /a.ˈzi.lu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to asilo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is asilo in Portuguese?
asilo appears 7.6 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).