monumento
Portuguese, noun/mo.nuˈmẽ.tu/
monumento is spelled M-O-N-U-M-E-N-T-O (9 letters) and appears 9.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,879th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Monumento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “monument (a structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “construção ou obra de escultura que perpetua um fato ou uma personagem notável”.
What does monumento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemonument (a structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. construção ou obra de escultura que perpetua um fato ou uma personagem notável 2. edifício majestoso 3. obra digna de passar à posteridade 4. sepulcro suntuoso
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 monumento
- monumentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce monumento?
- Brazil /mo.nuˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /mu.nuˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /mu.nu.ˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to monumento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is monumento in Portuguese?
monumento appears 9.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).