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quinquênio

Portuguese, noun/kĩˈkẽ.nju/

quinquênio is spelled Q-U-I-N-Q-U-Ê-N-I-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 101,652nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quinquênio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “lustrum, quinquennium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o mesmo que lustro”.

What does quinquênio mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinelustrum, quinquennium

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. o mesmo que lustro

noun: 1. o mesmo que lustro

noun: 1. o mesmo que quinquênio

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 quinquênio

  • quinquênios plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce quinquênio?

  • Brazil /kĩˈkẽ.nju/
  • Portugal /kĩˈke.nju/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is quinquênio in Portuguese?

quinquênio appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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