atavismo
Portuguese, noun/a.taˈviz.mu/
atavismo is spelled A-T-A-V-I-S-M-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 154,590th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atavismo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “atavism (reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in a species)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “herança de características físicas ou psíquicas de ascendentes remotos”.
What does atavismo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineatavism (reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in a species)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. herança de características físicas ou psíquicas de ascendentes remotos 2. hereditariedade
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 atavismo
- atavismos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atavismo?
- Brazil /a.taˈviz.mu/
- /a.taˈviʒ.mu/
- Portugal /ɐ.tɐˈviʒ.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to atavismo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is atavismo in Portuguese?
atavismo appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).