palimpsesto
Portuguese, noun/pa.lĩ.piˈses.tu/
palimpsesto is spelled P-A-L-I-M-P-S-E-S-T-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 124,583rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palimpsesto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “palimpsest (a manuscript scraped clean for reuse)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “manuscrito em pergaminho, que os copistas medievais rasparam para sobre ele escreverem de novo, mas do qual…”.
What does palimpsesto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepalimpsest (a manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. manuscrito em pergaminho, que os copistas medievais rasparam para sobre ele escreverem de novo, mas do qual se tem conseguido em parte, fazer reaparecer os primitivos caracteres
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 palimpsesto
- palimpsestos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce palimpsesto?
- Brazil /pa.lĩ.piˈses.tu/
- Brazil /pa.lĩpˈses.tu/
- /pa.lĩ.piˈseʃ.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 palimpsesto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is palimpsesto in Portuguese?
palimpsesto appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).