bastonário
Portuguese, noun/bas.toˈna.ɾju/
bastonário is spelled B-A-S-T-O-N-Á-R-I-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 51,518th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bastonário is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “president (chairperson of a professional association)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquele que usa um bastão como distintivo”.
What does bastonário mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepresident (chairperson of a professional association)
bastonário da Ordem dos Engenheiros
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aquele que usa um bastão como distintivo 2. bedel 3. presidente de uma ordem profissional (Ordem dos advogados, médicos, enfermeiros, etc.)
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 bastonário
- bastonários plural
- bastonária feminine
- bastonárias feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bastonário?
- Brazil /bas.toˈna.ɾju/
- /baʃ.toˈna.ɾju/
- Portugal /bɐʃ.tuˈna.ɾju/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bastonário in Portuguese?
bastonário appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).