sereio
Portuguese, noun/seˈɾej.u/
sereio is spelled S-E-R-E-I-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 157,828th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sereio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “merman (legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ser que é da cintura para baixo peixe, da cintura para cima ser humano masculino”.
What does sereio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemerman (legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ser que é da cintura para baixo peixe, da cintura para cima ser humano masculino
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 sereio
- sereios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sereio?
- Brazil /seˈɾej.u/
- Brazil [seˈɾeɪ̯.u]
- Portugal /sɨˈɾɐj.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 sereio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sereio in Portuguese?
sereio appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).