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incensário

Portuguese, noun/ĩ.sẽˈsa.ɾju/

incensário is spelled I-N-C-E-N-S-Á-R-I-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese, the 144,068th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Incensário is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “censer (container for burning incense)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “recipiente de metal pendente de cadeias no qual se queimam substâncias aromáticas em honra de Deus ou dos…”.

What does incensário mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecenser (container for burning incense)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. recipiente de metal pendente de cadeias no qual se queimam substâncias aromáticas em honra de Deus ou dos santos 2. turíbulo

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 incensário

  • incensários plural
  • incensório alternative

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

How do you pronounce incensário?

  • Brazil /ĩ.sẽˈsa.ɾju/
  • Portugal /ĩ.sẽˈsa.ɾju/

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

English words that translate to incensário

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

How common is incensário in Portuguese?

incensário appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese.

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

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