samo
Portuguese, noun/ˈsɐ̃.mu/
samo is spelled S-A-M-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 74,594th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Samo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sapwood (soft, newer wood just under the bark)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “parte do lenho mais mole que fica baixo da cortiça e envolve o cerne”.
What does samo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesapwood (soft, newer wood just under the bark)
verb
- 1
eye dialect spelling of somos
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. parte do lenho mais mole que fica baixo da cortiça e envolve o cerne
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 samo
- samos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce samo?
- Brazil /ˈsɐ̃.mu/
- Portugal /ˈsɐ.mu/
- Portugal /ˈsa.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to samo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is samo in Portuguese?
samo appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).