cinquentenário
Portuguese, noun
cinquentenário is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “quinquagenarian, fiftysomething, semicentenarian (fifty-year-old person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a diaeresis, cinqüentenário is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until ^([when?]) in Brazil and ^([when?])…”.
What does cinquentenário mean in English?
adjective
- 1
semicentennial (relating to the fiftieth anniversary of an event or happening)
- 2
semicentenarian (aged 50 years or more)
noun
- 1
masculinequinquagenarian, fiftysomething, semicentenarian (fifty-year-old person)
noun
- 1
masculinefiftieth anniversary, semicentennial, semicentenary
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until ^([when?]) in Brazil and ^([when?]) in Portugal) of cinquentenário
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of cinquentenário
- cinquentenária feminine
- cinquentenários masculine plural
- cinquentenárias feminine plural
- cinqüentenário alternative
- cinqüentenários plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cinquentenário in Portuguese?
cinquentenário appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).