hemeroteca
Portuguese, noun
hemeroteca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a place, such a section of a library, where periodicals (newspapers, magazines, and so on) are archived for consultation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “local onde são arquivadas (e ficam disponíveis para consulta) as publicações periódicas”.
What does hemeroteca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea place, such a section of a library, where periodicals (newspapers, magazines, and so on) are archived for consultation
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. local onde são arquivadas (e ficam disponíveis para consulta) as publicações periódicas
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 hemeroteca
- hemerotecas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is hemeroteca in Portuguese?
hemeroteca 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).