bivaque
Portuguese, noun/biˈva.ki/
bivaque is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “bivouac (encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of bivacar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “acampamento rudimentar feito na natureza”.
What does bivaque mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebivouac (encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-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. acampamento rudimentar feito na natureza 2. acampamento descoberto e improvisado
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 bivaque
- bivaques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bivaque?
- Brazil /biˈva.ki/
- Portugal /biˈva.kɨ/
- Portugal /biˈba.kɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bivaque
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bivaque in Portuguese?
bivaque appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).