seminário
Portuguese, noun/se.miˈna.ɾju/
seminário is spelled S-E-M-I-N-Á-R-I-O (9 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,799th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Seminário is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “seminary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estabelecimento de ensino onde se preparam candidatos para o sacerdócio”.
What does seminário mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineseminary
- 2
masculineseminar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estabelecimento de ensino onde se preparam candidatos para o sacerdócio 2. reunião de estudos a respeito de determinado assunto 3. viveiro de plântulas, lugar onde são semeadas para logo ser transplantadas
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 seminário
- seminários plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce seminário?
- Brazil /se.miˈna.ɾju/
- Portugal /sɨ.miˈna.ɾju/
- Brazil [se.miˈna.ɾɪ.u]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to seminário
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is seminário in Portuguese?
seminário appears 17 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).