camerlengo
Portuguese, noun/ka.meʁˈlẽ.ɡu/
camerlengo is spelled C-A-M-E-R-L-E-N-G-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 76,181st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Camerlengo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “camerlengo (cardinal who presides over the Apostolic Chamber and, in a pontifical interregnum, is responsible for governing the Church in…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “adido à câmara”.
What does camerlengo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecamerlengo (cardinal who presides over the Apostolic Chamber and, in a pontifical interregnum, is responsible for governing the Church in the administrative field)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. adido à câmara
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 camerlengo
- camerlengos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce camerlengo?
- Brazil /ka.meʁˈlẽ.ɡu/
- Brazil [ka.meɦˈlẽ.ɡu]
- /ka.meɾˈlẽ.ɡu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to camerlengo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is camerlengo in Portuguese?
camerlengo appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).