cerro
Portuguese, noun/ˈse.ʁu/
cerro is spelled C-E-R-R-O (5 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 22,247th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cerro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “little hill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cerrar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “elevação no terreno formando um monte pequeno e com penhasco”.
What does cerro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelittle hill
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of cerrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. elevação no terreno formando um monte pequeno e com penhasco 2. o lombo dos animais 3. a parte de trás do tronco 4. a carne do lombo do porco junto ao couro
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 cerro
- cerros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cerro?
- Brazil /ˈse.ʁu/
- Brazil [ˈse.hu]
- Brazil /ˈsɛ.ʁu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cerro in Portuguese?
cerro appears 2.0 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).