báculo
Portuguese, noun/ˈba.ku.lu/
báculo is spelled B-Á-C-U-L-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 118,367th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Báculo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “crosier (staff of a bishop or abbot)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “bastão usado por bispos católicos”.
What does báculo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrosier (staff of a bishop or abbot)
- 2
masculinebaculum (bone found in the penis of some mammals)
- 3
masculinecosier (young fern frond)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. bastão usado por bispos católicos 2. cajado 3. osso que sustenta o pênis em alguns mamíferos
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 báculo
- báculos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce báculo?
- Brazil /ˈba.ku.lu/
- Portugal /ˈba.ku.lu/
- /ˈba.ku.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 báculo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is báculo in Portuguese?
báculo appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).