camelo
Portuguese, noun
camelo is spelled C-A-M-E-L-O (6 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,223rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Camelo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “camel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of camelar. With an accent, camelô is a different word: “huckster, peddler, hawker (itinerant street vendor)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “grande mamífero camelídeo quadrúpede ruminante do gênero Camelus, originário do Velho Mundo com uma ou duas…”.
What does camelo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecamel
- 2
colloquialderogatorymasculinearsehole, jerk
- 3
masculinea short piece of artillery
- 4
colloquialmasculinebicycle
noun
- 1
masculinehawser
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of camelar
noun
- 1
Brazilfemininemasculinehuckster, peddler, hawker (itinerant street vendor)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. grande mamífero camelídeo quadrúpede ruminante do gênero Camelus, originário do Velho Mundo com uma ou duas corcovas 2. a espécie Camelus bactrianus 3. imbecil, boçal 4. bicicleta
noun: 1. vendedor ambulante 2. comerciante que não paga impostos 3. comerciante cujo ponto não é legalizado
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 camelo
- camelos plural
- camela feminine
- camelas feminine plural
- camelôs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to camelo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is camelo in Portuguese?
camelo appears 3.0 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).