quinhentismo
Portuguese, noun/kĩ.ɲẽˈt͡ʃiz.mu/
quinhentismo is spelled Q-U-I-N-H-E-N-T-I-S-M-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese, the 203,084th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quinhentismo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “any of the arts and literature of the sixteenth century (1500s)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estilo ou escola literária dos quinhentistas”.
What does quinhentismo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineany of the arts and literature of the sixteenth century (1500s)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estilo ou escola literária dos quinhentistas
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 quinhentismo
- quinhentismos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quinhentismo?
- Brazil /kĩ.ɲẽˈt͡ʃiz.mu/
- Brazil [kĩ.j̃ẽˈt͡ʃiz.mu]
- /kĩ.ɲẽˈt͡ʃiʒ.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is quinhentismo in Portuguese?
quinhentismo appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).