cerquinho
Portuguese, noun/seʁˈkĩ.ɲu/
cerquinho is spelled C-E-R-Q-U-I-N-H-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese, the 233,859th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cerquinho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Portuguese oak (Quercus faginea, an oak of the western Mediterranean region)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pequeno carvalho inespecífico”.
What does cerquinho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinePortuguese oak (Quercus faginea, an oak of the western Mediterranean region)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pequeno carvalho inespecífico 2. Quercus faginea, carvalho-cerquinho
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 cerquinho
- cerquinhos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cerquinho?
- Brazil /seʁˈkĩ.ɲu/
- Brazil [sehˈkĩ.j̃u]
- /seɾˈkĩ.ɲu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cerquinho in Portuguese?
cerquinho appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).