pastoreio
Portuguese, noun/pas.toˈɾej.u/
pastoreio is spelled P-A-S-T-O-R-E-I-O (9 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 31,281st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pastoreio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “grazing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of pastorear. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato que desenvolvem os pastores e o gado, ação de pastorear, cuidado do gado enquanto pasce”.
What does pastoreio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegrazing
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of pastorear
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato que desenvolvem os pastores e o gado, ação de pastorear, cuidado do gado enquanto pasce
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 pastoreio
- pastoreios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pastoreio?
- Brazil /pas.toˈɾej.u/
- Brazil [pas.toˈɾeɪ̯.u]
- /paʃ.toˈɾej.u/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pastoreio in Portuguese?
pastoreio appears 1.1 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).