retro
Portuguese, adjective
retro is spelled R-E-T-R-O (5 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,930th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retro is a Portuguese adjective meaning “retro (imitative of past trends)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, retrô is a different word: “retro (imitative of past trends)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que tem traço aspectual que remonta ou é similar a de coisa que já foi comum, vigente ou generalizado em…”.
What does retro mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Portugalretro (imitative of past trends)
prefix
- 1
retro-
adjective
- 1
Brazilretro (imitative of past trends)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que tem traço aspectual que remonta ou é similar a de coisa que já foi comum, vigente ou generalizado em tempo passado
adjective: 1. que tem traço aspectual que remonta ou é similar a de coisa que já foi comum, vigente ou generalizado em tempo passado
adjective: 1. ver retrô
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 retro
- retrô alternative Brazil
- retro alternative Portugal
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to retro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retro in Portuguese?
retro appears 1.8 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).