monacal
Portuguese, adjective/mo.naˈkaw/
monacal is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “monastic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “relativo ao monge”.
What does monacal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinemonastic
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. relativo ao monge
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 monacal
- monacais plural
- monacalíssimo absolute superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce monacal?
- Brazil /mo.naˈkaw/
- Brazil [mo.naˈkaʊ̯]
- Portugal /mu.nɐˈkal/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to monacal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is monacal in Portuguese?
monacal appears about once in every 46 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).