auréola
Portuguese, noun
auréola is spelled A-U-R-É-O-L-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 54,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Auréola is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “halo, aureole, nimbus (luminous disc around the heads of saints)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, aureola is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “círculo dourado ou peça de metal circular com que pintores e escultores circundam muitas vezes a cabeça de…”.
What does auréola mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehalo, aureole, nimbus (luminous disc around the heads of saints)
- 2
feminineaureola (luminous cloud around a sacred personage)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. círculo dourado ou peça de metal circular com que pintores e escultores circundam muitas vezes a cabeça de Cristo, da Virgem Maria, dos santos, anjos, etc., representando uma espécie de resplendor em suas imagens
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 auréola
- auréolas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to auréola
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is auréola in Portuguese?
auréola 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).