vaquita
Portuguese, noun/vaˈki.tɐ/
vaquita is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “synonym of vaquita-marinha” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cetáceo marinho do hemisfério norte, espécie de toninha do Golfo da Califórnia, (Phocoena sinus)”.
What does vaquita mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesynonym of vaquita-marinha
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cetáceo marinho do hemisfério norte, espécie de toninha do Golfo da Califórnia, (Phocoena sinus)
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 vaquita
- vaquitas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vaquita?
- Brazil /vaˈki.tɐ/
- Portugal /vɐˈki.tɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vaquita
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vaquita in Portuguese?
vaquita appears about once in every 48 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).