Daomé
Portuguese, noun/da.oˈmɛ/
Daomé is spelled D-A-O-M-É (5 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese, the 146,979th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Daomé is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Dahomey (a former kingdom in West Africa, existing from c. 1600–1904 and located in the southern part of present-day Benin)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Daomé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineDahomey (a former kingdom in West Africa, existing from c. 1600–1904 and located in the southern part of present-day Benin)
- 2
masculineDahomey (former name of Benin: a country in West Africa; used from 1958–1975)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How do you pronounce Daomé?
- Brazil /da.oˈmɛ/
- Portugal /dɐ.uˈmɛ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Daomé in Portuguese?
Daomé appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).