sarmento
Portuguese, noun/saʁˈmẽ.tu/
sarmento is spelled S-A-R-M-E-N-T-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 41,403rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sarmento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a woody shoot of a vine etc., used as firewood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “caule fino e comprido que se segura por gavinhas aos corpos próximos, como por exemplo na videira”.
What does sarmento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea woody shoot of a vine etc., used as firewood
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. caule fino e comprido que se segura por gavinhas aos corpos próximos, como por exemplo na videira
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 sarmento
- sarmentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sarmento?
- Brazil /saʁˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil [saɦˈmẽ.tu]
- /saɾˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sarmento in Portuguese?
sarmento appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).