atum
Portuguese, noun/aˈtũ/
atum is spelled A-T-U-M (4 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,696th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atum is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tuna” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peixe da família dos Escombrídeos muito usado na alimentação quer em fresco, quer em conserva”.
What does atum mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetuna
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. peixe da família dos Escombrídeos muito usado na alimentação quer em fresco, quer em conserva
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 atum
- atuns plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atum?
- Brazil /aˈtũ/
- Portugal /ɐˈtũ/
- Portugal /ɐ.ˈtũ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to atum
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is atum in Portuguese?
atum appears 3.2 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).