semibreve
Portuguese, noun/se.miˈbɾɛ.vi/
semibreve is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “semibreve (musical note four beats long in 4/4 time)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “duração de tempo correspondente a duas mínimas, ou quatro semínimas”.
What does semibreve mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesemibreve (musical note four beats long in 4/4 time)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. duração de tempo correspondente a duas mínimas, ou quatro semínimas
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 semibreve
- semibreves plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce semibreve?
- Brazil /se.miˈbɾɛ.vi/
- Portugal /sɨ.miˈbɾɛ.vɨ/
- Portugal [sɨ.miˈβɾɛ.vɨ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to semibreve
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is semibreve in Portuguese?
semibreve appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).