época
Portuguese, noun
época is spelled É-P-O-C-A (5 letters) and appears 148 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 668th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Época is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “time, season” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, epoca is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “em geral, determinado momento do tempo”.
What does época mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetime, season
- 2
feminineage, period, epoch (particular period of history)
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of época
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. em geral, determinado momento do tempo 2. momento da história marcado por um acontecimento importante 3. era; período; temporada; quadra; estação
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 época
- épocas plural
- epoca alternative
- epocha alternative
- epocas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to época
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is época in Portuguese?
época appears 148 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).