calvária
Portuguese, noun
calvária is spelled C-A-L-V-Á-R-I-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written Portuguese, the 262,312th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calvária is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “calvaria (top of the skull)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, calvaria is a different word: “first/third-person singular conditional of calvar”.
What does calvária mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecalvaria (top of the skull)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular conditional of calvar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do futuro do pretérito do verbo calvar
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 calvária
- calvárias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is calvária in Portuguese?
calvária appears about once in every 93 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).