centavo
Portuguese, noun/sẽˈta.vu/
centavo is spelled C-E-N-T-A-V-O (7 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,007th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Centavo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cent (a hundredth of several monetary units, including the Brazilian real, the Portuguese escudo, and the Mozambican metical)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “centésima parte do escudo (antiga moeda portuguesa)”.
What does centavo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecent (a hundredth of several monetary units, including the Brazilian real, the Portuguese escudo, and the Mozambican metical)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. centésima parte do escudo (antiga moeda portuguesa) 2. centésima parte do real, moeda brasileira
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 centavo
- centavos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce centavo?
- Brazil /sẽˈta.vu/
- Portugal /sẽˈta.vu/
- Portugal /sẽˈta.bu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to centavo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is centavo in Portuguese?
centavo appears 3.4 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).