ósculo
Portuguese, noun
ósculo is spelled Ó-S-C-U-L-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese, the 141,055th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ósculo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “kiss” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, osculo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of oscular”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “beijo”.
What does ósculo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerarekiss
- 2
masculineosculum (main opening in a sponge)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of oscular
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. beijo 2. abertura principal da espongiocele, na extremidade livre do corpo das esponjas
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 ósculo
- ósculos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ósculo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ósculo in Portuguese?
ósculo appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).