cetáceo
Portuguese, noun/seˈta.sju/
cetáceo is spelled C-E-T-Á-C-E-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese, the 176,436th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cetáceo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cetacean (any animal belonging to the order Cetacea)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mamífero marinho da ordem Cetacea, tem as narinas na parte alta da cabeça, de corpo pisciforme; engloba…”.
What does cetáceo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cetacean; cetaceous (pertaining to the zoologic order Cetacea)
noun
- 1
masculinecetacean (any animal belonging to the order Cetacea)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mamífero marinho da ordem Cetacea, tem as narinas na parte alta da cabeça, de corpo pisciforme; engloba golfinhos e baleias
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 cetáceo
- cetácea feminine
- cetáceos masculine plural
- cetáceas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cetáceo?
- Brazil /seˈta.sju/
- Portugal /sɨˈta.sju/
- Portugal /sɨ.ˈta.sju/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cetáceo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cetáceo in Portuguese?
cetáceo appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).