portentoso
Portuguese, adjective/poʁ.tẽˈto.zu/
portentoso is spelled P-O-R-T-E-N-T-O-S-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 159,424th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Portentoso is a Portuguese adjective meaning “prodigious, wonderful, marvelous, portentous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “maravilhoso, extraordinário, qualidade de um portento”.
What does portentoso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
prodigious, wonderful, marvelous, portentous
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. maravilhoso, extraordinário, qualidade de um portento
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 portentoso
- portentosa feminine
- portentosos masculine plural
- portentosas feminine plural
- metaphonic feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce portentoso?
- Brazil /poʁ.tẽˈto.zu/
- Brazil [poh.tẽˈto.zu]
- /poɾ.tẽˈto.zu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is portentoso in Portuguese?
portentoso appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).