jugo
Portuguese, noun/ˈʒu.ɡu/
jugo is spelled J-U-G-O (4 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,037th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jugo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “yoke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “canga”.
What does jugo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineyoke
- 2
masculinesomething which represses or restrains someone
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. canga 2. sujeição
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 jugo
- jugos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jugo?
- Brazil /ˈʒu.ɡu/
- Portugal /ˈʒu.ɡu/
- Portugal [ˈʒu.ɣu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to jugo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is jugo in Portuguese?
jugo appears 1.2 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).