rocinante
Portuguese, noun/ʁo.siˈnɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
rocinante is spelled R-O-C-I-N-A-N-T-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese, the 125,896th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rocinante is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “nag (weak and useless horse)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cavalo reles”.
What does rocinante mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenag (weak and useless horse)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cavalo reles
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 rocinante
- rocinantes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rocinante?
- Brazil /ʁo.siˈnɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil [ho.siˈnɐ̃.t͡ʃi]
- /ʁo.siˈnɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rocinante
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rocinante in Portuguese?
rocinante appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).