cipó
Portuguese, noun
cipó is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “liana (climbing, woody vine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, cipo is a different word: “cippus (short pillar with an inscription)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “designação comum às plantas lenhosas e sarmentosas ou trepadeiras, que pendem e se trançam nas árvores…”.
What does cipó mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculineliana (climbing, woody vine)
noun
- 1
masculinecippus (short pillar with an inscription)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. designação comum às plantas lenhosas e sarmentosas ou trepadeiras, que pendem e se trançam nas árvores, características das florestas tropicais
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado da Bahia
noun: 1. cacete, pau pequeno
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 cipó
- cipos plural
- cipós plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cipó
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cipó in Portuguese?
cipó appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).