cenotáfio
Portuguese, noun/se.noˈta.fju/
cenotáfio is spelled C-E-N-O-T-Á-F-I-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese, the 144,068th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cenotáfio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cenotaph (monument to honor the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “monumento fúnebre, sem o corpo, apenas simbólico”.
What does cenotáfio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecenotaph (monument to honor the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. monumento fúnebre, sem o corpo, apenas simbólico
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 cenotáfio
- cenotáfios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cenotáfio?
- Brazil /se.noˈta.fju/
- Portugal /sɨ.nuˈta.fju/
- Brazil /se.noˈta.fi.u/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cenotáfio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cenotáfio in Portuguese?
cenotáfio appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).