ossuário
Portuguese, noun/o.suˈa.ɾju/
ossuário is spelled O-S-S-U-Á-R-I-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 128,503rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ossuário is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “ossuary (a place where bones of dead people are kept)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ossário”.
What does ossuário mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineossuary (a place where bones of dead people are kept)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ossário
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 ossuário
- ossuários plural
- ossário alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ossuário?
- Brazil /o.suˈa.ɾju/
- Brazil /oˈswa.ɾju/
- Portugal /ɔˈswa.ɾju/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ossuário
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ossuário in Portuguese?
ossuário appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).