abreviação
Portuguese, noun/a.bɾe.vi.aˈsɐ̃w̃/
abreviação is spelled A-B-R-E-V-I-A-Ç-Ã-O (10 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 28,135th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abreviação is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “abbreviation (shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de abreviar, reduzir, algo”.
What does abreviação mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineabbreviation (shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase)
- 2
feminineabbreviation (act or result of shortening or reducing)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de abreviar, reduzir, algo 2. processo onde uma palavra perde alguns de seus elementos, mas mantém o significado da palavra original (como em cine de cinema, pneu de pneumático, quilo de quilograma, etc.) 3. forma de reduzir um termo através de siglas (siglemas ou sigloides) como em V. para você, V. Sª para vossa senhoria, Unesco, ONU, etc.
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 abreviação
- abreviações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abreviação?
- Brazil /a.bɾe.vi.aˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [a.bɾe.vi.aˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /a.bɾe.vjaˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to abreviação
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abreviação in Portuguese?
abreviação appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).