milhete
Portuguese, noun/miˈʎe.t͡ʃi/
milhete is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of milheto” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cereal cultivado de grão muito pequeno, diversas espécies da sub-família Panicoideae e da família Poaceae…”.
What does milhete mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of milheto
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cereal cultivado de grão muito pequeno, diversas espécies da sub-família Panicoideae e da família Poaceae recebem este nome
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 milhete
- milhetes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce milhete?
- Brazil /miˈʎe.t͡ʃi/
- Portugal /miˈʎe.tɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to milhete
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is milhete in Portuguese?
milhete appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).