semicolcheia
Portuguese, noun/se.mi.kowˈʃej.ɐ/
semicolcheia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “semiquaver (a sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nota musical com duas bandeirolas cuja duração é 16 (um décimo sexto de uma semibreve e metade de uma…”.
What does semicolcheia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesemiquaver (a sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nota musical com duas bandeirolas cuja duração é 16 (um décimo sexto de uma semibreve e metade de uma colcheia)
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 semicolcheia
- semicolcheias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce semicolcheia?
- Brazil /se.mi.kowˈʃej.ɐ/
- Brazil [se.mi.koʊ̯ˈʃeɪ̯.ɐ]
- Portugal /sɨ.mi.kolˈʃɐj.ɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to semicolcheia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is semicolcheia in Portuguese?
semicolcheia appears about once in every 69 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).