quelônio
Portuguese, noun
quelônio is spelled Q-U-E-L-Ô-N-I-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written Portuguese, the 262,312th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quelônio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of quelónio” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, quelónio is a different word: “turtle (any reptile of the order Testudines)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “categoria de réptil terrestre e aquático, cujo corpo é formado num estojo ósseo; exemplos: tartaruga, cágado…”.
What does quelônio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineBrazilian Portuguese standard spelling of quelónio
noun
- 1
masculineturtle (any reptile of the order Testudines)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. categoria de réptil terrestre e aquático, cujo corpo é formado num estojo ósseo; exemplos: tartaruga, cágado e jabuti
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 quelônio
- quelónios plural
- quelônio alternative Brazil
- quelônios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is quelônio in Portuguese?
quelônio appears about once in every 93 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).