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hagiógrafo

Portuguese, noun/a.ʒiˈɔ.ɡɾa.fu/

hagiógrafo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hagiographer (someone who writes the biography of a saint)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “algum dos livros históricos ou dos livros poéticos e sapienciais do Antigo Testamento”.

What does hagiógrafo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinehagiographer (someone who writes the biography of a saint)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. relativo a hagiógrafo/hagiografista 2. referente a algum dos livros históricos ou dos livros poéticos e sapienciais do Antigo Testamento 3. relacionado ao autor de um desses livros

noun: 1. algum dos livros históricos ou dos livros poéticos e sapienciais do Antigo Testamento 2. autor de algum desses livros 3. autor de hagiografias, escritor que conta a vida de santos:

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 hagiógrafo

  • hagiógrafos plural
  • hagiógrafa feminine
  • hagiógrafas feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce hagiógrafo?

  • Brazil /a.ʒiˈɔ.ɡɾa.fu/
  • Brazil /aˈʒjɔ.ɡɾa.fu/
  • Portugal /ɐˈʒjɔ.ɡɾɐ.fu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to hagiógrafo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is hagiógrafo in Portuguese?

hagiógrafo appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese.

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