calçamento
Portuguese, noun/kaw.saˈmẽ.tu/
calçamento is spelled C-A-L-Ç-A-M-E-N-T-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 46,725th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calçamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “paving (process, or paved floor)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de calçar (uma rua, uma estrada)”.
What does calçamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepaving (process, or paved floor)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de calçar (uma rua, uma estrada) 2. piso pavimentado (de rua, estrada)
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 calçamento
- calçamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calçamento?
- Brazil /kaw.saˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil [kaʊ̯.saˈmẽ.tu]
- Portugal /kal.sɐˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calçamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calçamento in Portuguese?
calçamento 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).