secco
Portuguese, adjective
secco is spelled S-E-C-C-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,952nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Secco is a Portuguese adjective meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of seco” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of seccar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide seco”.
What does secco mean in English?
adjective
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of seco
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of seccar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. vide seco
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 secco
- secca feminine
- seccos masculine plural
- seccas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is secco in Portuguese?
secco appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).