brontossauro
Portuguese, noun/bɾõ.toˈsaw.ɾu/
brontossauro is spelled B-R-O-N-T-O-S-S-A-U-R-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese, the 171,147th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brontossauro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “brontosaurus (any member of the genus Brontosaurus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “género/gênero de dinossauros (Brontosaurus) quadrúpedes, saurópodes e herbívoros da família dos…”.
What does brontossauro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebrontosaurus (any member of the genus Brontosaurus)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. género/gênero de dinossauros (Brontosaurus) quadrúpedes, saurópodes e herbívoros da família dos diplodocídeos, descobertos em 1879 por Othniel Charles Marsh, habitavam no que hoje é a América do Norte, tendo vivido durante o Jurássico Superior (entre aproximadamente 156,3 e 146,8 milhões de anos atrás), media até 22 metros de comprimento, com uma massa estimada de 15 toneladas
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 brontossauro
- brontossauros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brontossauro?
- Brazil /bɾõ.toˈsaw.ɾu/
- Brazil [bɾõ.toˈsaʊ̯.ɾu]
- Portugal /bɾõ.tuˈsaw.ɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to brontossauro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is brontossauro in Portuguese?
brontossauro appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).