século
Portuguese, noun
século is spelled S-É-C-U-L-O (6 letters) and appears 89 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,098th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Século is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “century (time)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, seculo is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “período de cem anos que se conta a partir de um ponto cronologicamente determinado”.
What does século mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecentury (time)
século XXI
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of século
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. período de cem anos que se conta a partir de um ponto cronologicamente determinado 2. a vida mundana, terrestre 3. a vida secular, isto é, não religiosa 4. época notória por determinado acontecimento ou figura histórica
noun: 1. vide século
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 século
- séculos plural
- séc. alternative abbreviation
- seculo alternative
- seculos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to século
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is século in Portuguese?
século appears 89 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).