colostro
Portuguese, noun/koˈlos.tɾu/
colostro is spelled C-O-L-O-S-T-R-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 122,069th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colostro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “colostrum (a form of milk)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “primeiro leite segregado no começo da lactação, depois do parto e nos seguintes dias, rico em nutrientes”.
What does colostro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecolostrum (a form of milk)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. primeiro leite segregado no começo da lactação, depois do parto e nos seguintes dias, rico em nutrientes
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 colostro
- colostros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce colostro?
- Brazil /koˈlos.tɾu/
- /koˈloʃ.tɾu/
- Portugal /kuˈloʃ.tɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to colostro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is colostro in Portuguese?
colostro appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).