thesaurus
Portuguese, noun/teˈzaw.ɾus/
thesaurus is spelled T-H-E-S-A-U-R-U-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese, the 120,815th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Thesaurus is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of tesauro” (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 thesaurus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of tesauro
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 thesaurus
- thesauri plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce thesaurus?
- Brazil /teˈzaw.ɾus/
- Brazil [teˈzaʊ̯.ɾus]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to thesaurus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is thesaurus in Portuguese?
thesaurus appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).