lunação
Portuguese, noun/lu.naˈsɐ̃w̃/
lunação is spelled L-U-N-A-Ç-Ã-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese, the 176,436th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lunação is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “lunation (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “período sinódico lunar”.
What does lunação mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelunation (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. período sinódico lunar 2. período equivalente a um ciclo lunar completo, ou seja, compreendendo as quatro fases da lua
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 lunação
- lunações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lunação?
- Brazil /lu.naˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [lu.naˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /lu.nɐˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lunação
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lunação in Portuguese?
lunação appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).