estorninho
Portuguese, noun/is.toʁˈnĩ.ɲu/
estorninho is spelled E-S-T-O-R-N-I-N-H-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 113,611th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Estorninho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “starling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ave passeriforme do gênero Sturnus, (Sturnus unicolor e Sturnus vulgaris)”.
What does estorninho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestarling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ave passeriforme do gênero Sturnus, (Sturnus unicolor e Sturnus vulgaris)
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 estorninho
- estorninhos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce estorninho?
- Brazil /is.toʁˈnĩ.ɲu/
- Brazil [is.toɦˈnĩ.j̃u]
- Brazil /es.toʁˈnĩ.ɲu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to estorninho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is estorninho in Portuguese?
estorninho appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).