tesauro
Portuguese, noun/teˈzaw.ɾu/
tesauro is spelled T-E-S-A-U-R-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese, the 164,273rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tesauro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “thesaurus (book of synonyms)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “grupos de palavras e expressões classificadas por temas (assuntos), de acordo com a analogia dos seus…”.
What does tesauro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethesaurus (book of synonyms)
- 2
masculinethesaurus (hierarchical index of metadata pointing to information bearing entities)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. grupos de palavras e expressões classificadas por temas (assuntos), de acordo com a analogia dos seus significados 2. tesouro
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 tesauro
- tesauros plural
- thesaurus alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tesauro?
- Brazil /teˈzaw.ɾu/
- Brazil [teˈzaʊ̯.ɾu]
- Portugal /tɨˈzaw.ɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tesauro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tesauro in Portuguese?
tesauro appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).