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trovador

Portuguese, noun/tɾo.vaˈdoʁ/

trovador is spelled T-R-O-V-A-D-O-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 59,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trovador is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “troubadour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “em Portugal, poeta lírico ambulante, do final da Idade Média, que cantava seus próprios versos nas feiras de…”.

What does trovador mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetroubadour

  2. 2

    masculinebard

  3. 3

    masculinepoet

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. em Portugal, poeta lírico ambulante, do final da Idade Média, que cantava seus próprios versos nas feiras de vila em vila (tradição originada na Provença) 2. nome dados aos poetas do sul da França que cantavam versos em língua d'oc, por oposição a troveiro 3. designação comum a qualquer poeta que canta seus versos 4. o que faz ou canta trovas

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 trovador

  • trovadores plural
  • trovadora feminine
  • trovadoras feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce trovador?

  • Brazil /tɾo.vaˈdoʁ/
  • Brazil [tɾo.vaˈdoh]
  • /tɾo.vaˈdoɾ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to trovador

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is trovador in Portuguese?

trovador appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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