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sacro

Portuguese, noun/ˈsa.kɾu/

sacro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sacrum (bone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “osso da parte final da coluna vertebral formado pela união de várias vértebras e com o qual articulam os…”.

What does sacro mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    sacred

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesacrum (bone)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. sagrado, qualificativo dado a aquilo que tem relação com o divino, a aquilo que se tem em mui alta estima

noun: 1. osso da parte final da coluna vertebral formado pela união de várias vértebras e com o qual articulam os quadris

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 sacro

  • sacra feminine
  • sacros masculine plural
  • sacras feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce sacro?

  • Brazil /ˈsa.kɾu/
  • Portugal /ˈsa.kɾu/

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

English words that translate to sacro

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

How common is sacro in Portuguese?

sacro appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.

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