patíbulo
Portuguese, noun/paˈt͡ʃi.bu.lu/
patíbulo is spelled P-A-T-Í-B-U-L-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 107,947th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Patíbulo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “gallows, scaffold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estrado ou lugar onde os condenados sofrem a pena capital”.
What does patíbulo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegallows, scaffold
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estrado ou lugar onde os condenados sofrem a pena capital 2. cadafalso
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 patíbulo
- patíbulos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce patíbulo?
- Brazil /paˈt͡ʃi.bu.lu/
- Portugal /pɐˈti.bu.lu/
- Portugal [pɐˈti.βu.lu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to patíbulo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is patíbulo in Portuguese?
patíbulo appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).