bacelo
Portuguese, noun/baˈsɛ.lu/
bacelo is spelled B-A-C-E-L-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese, the 211,654th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bacelo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “rootstock (especially of a grapevine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vara que se tira de uma videira velha para formar uma nova planta”.
What does bacelo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerootstock (especially of a grapevine)
- 2
masculinea young vine
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vara que se tira de uma videira velha para formar uma nova planta 2. vinha nova
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 bacelo
- bacelos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bacelo?
- Brazil /baˈsɛ.lu/
- Portugal /bɐˈsɛ.lu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bacelo in Portuguese?
bacelo appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).