sonâmbulo
Portuguese, noun
sonâmbulo is spelled S-O-N-Â-M-B-U-L-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 64,715th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sonâmbulo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “somnambulist, sleepwalker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, sonambulo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of sonambular”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa que apresenta sonambulismo, realizando atividades motoras durante o sono”.
What does sonâmbulo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
somnambulant
noun
- 1
masculinesomnambulist, sleepwalker
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of sonambular
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que ou aquele que sofre de sonambulismo
noun: 1. pessoa que apresenta sonambulismo, realizando atividades motoras durante o sono
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 sonâmbulo
- sonâmbula feminine
- sonâmbulos masculine plural
- sonâmbulas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sonâmbulo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sonâmbulo in Portuguese?
sonâmbulo appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).