novilho
Portuguese, noun/noˈvi.ʎu/
novilho is spelled N-O-V-I-L-H-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 67,344th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Novilho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “calf (young bull)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “bovídeo de menos de dois anos”.
What does novilho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecalf (young bull)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. bovídeo de menos de dois anos
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 novilho
- novilhos plural
- novilha feminine
- novilhas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce novilho?
- Brazil /noˈvi.ʎu/
- Portugal /nuˈvi.ʎu/
- Portugal /nuˈbi.ʎu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to novilho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is novilho in Portuguese?
novilho 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).