zootrópio
Portuguese, noun
zootrópio is spelled Z-O-O-T-R-Ó-P-I-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written Portuguese, the 262,312th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zootrópio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “zoetrope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dispositivo que consiste em um cilindro perfurado que possui diversas imagens em seu interior e que, ao ser…”.
What does zootrópio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinezoetrope
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. dispositivo que consiste em um cilindro perfurado que possui diversas imagens em seu interior e que, ao ser girado rapidamente, gera a ilusão de movimento quando observado pelas fendas
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 zootrópio
- zootrópios plural
- zootropo alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zootrópio in Portuguese?
zootrópio appears about once in every 93 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).