macabeus
Portuguese, noun
macabeus is spelled M-A-C-A-B-E-U-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,701st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Macabeus is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of macabeu” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a masculine plural of macabeu. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “livro deuterocanônico do Antigo Testamento da Bíblia católica”.
What does macabeus mean in English?
adjective
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of macabeu
noun
- 1
plural of macabeu
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. livro deuterocanônico do Antigo Testamento da Bíblia católica
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.
How common is macabeus in Portuguese?
macabeus appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).