boieiro
Portuguese, noun/bojˈe(j).ɾu/
boieiro is spelled B-O-I-E-I-R-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written Portuguese, the 218,398th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boieiro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cattle driver (someone of drives or watches over cattle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa que tem como profissão cuidar de rebanhos de bois”.
What does boieiro mean in English?
adjective
- 1
relative to oxen
noun
- 1
masculinecattle driver (someone of drives or watches over cattle)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que tem relação com o boi (toiro ou touro)
noun: 1. pessoa que tem como profissão cuidar de rebanhos de bois
noun: 1. constelação boreal, que tem forma de boieiro
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 boieiro
- boieira feminine
- boieiros masculine plural
- boieiras feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce boieiro?
- Brazil /bojˈe(j).ɾu/
- Brazil [boɪ̯ˈe(ɪ̯).ɾu]
- Portugal /bojˈɐj.ɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is boieiro in Portuguese?
boieiro appears about once in every 62 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).