legenda
Portuguese, noun/leˈʒẽ.dɐ/
legenda is spelled L-E-G-E-N-D-A (7 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,317th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Legenda is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “subtitle(s) (textual versions of film dialogue)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of legendar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “lenda”.
What does legenda mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesubtitle(s) (textual versions of film dialogue)
- 2
femininecaption (title or brief explanation attached to an illustration or cartoon)
- 3
femininekey, legend (textual description of symbols and/or colour codes on a map or graph)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. lenda 2. inscrição; dístico 3. letreiro 4. texto explicativo
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 legenda
- legendas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce legenda?
- Brazil /leˈʒẽ.dɐ/
- Portugal /lɨˈʒẽ.dɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to legenda
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is legenda in Portuguese?
legenda appears 26 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).