refúgio
Portuguese, noun
refúgio is spelled R-E-F-Ú-G-I-O (7 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,851st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Refúgio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “refuge, haven” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, refugio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of refugiar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “lugar para onde alguém se retira para evitar um perigo”.
What does refúgio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerefuge, haven
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of refugiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. lugar para onde alguém se retira para evitar um perigo 2. meio de escapar
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 refúgio
- refúgios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to refúgio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is refúgio in Portuguese?
refúgio appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).