mascavo
Portuguese, adjective/masˈka.vu/
mascavo is a Portuguese adjective meaning “brown, and with flavour of molasses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of mascavar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “não refinado (falando-se do açúcar)”.
What does mascavo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
obsoleteadulterated, unrefined
- 2
brown, and with flavour of molasses
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of mascavar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. não refinado (falando-se do açúcar)
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 mascavo
- mascava feminine
- mascavos masculine plural
- mascavas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mascavo?
- Brazil /masˈka.vu/
- /maʃˈka.vu/
- Brazil /mɐsˈkavu̥/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mascavo in Portuguese?
mascavo appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).