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colectânea

Portuguese, noun

colectânea is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of coletânea; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does colectânea mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of coletânea; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of colectânea

  • colectâneas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is colectânea in Portuguese?

colectânea appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).