alimento
Portuguese, noun/a.liˈmẽ.tu/
alimento is spelled A-L-I-M-E-N-T-O (8 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,721st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alimento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “food (any substance consumed by living organisms to sustain life), foodstuff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of alimentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “substância destinada ao consumo de seres vivos heterótrofos, com o fito de prover energia e material para o…”.
What does alimento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefood (any substance consumed by living organisms to sustain life), foodstuff
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of alimentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. substância destinada ao consumo de seres vivos heterótrofos, com o fito de prover energia e material para o crescimento 2. o conjunto de substâncias normalmente ingeridas por uma pessoa ou animal 3. provimentos destinados ao consumo e satisfação de necessidades fisiológicas de um indivíduo (P.e., pensão alimentícia)
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 alimento
- alimentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alimento?
- Brazil /a.liˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ɐ.liˈmẽ.tu/
- /a.li.ˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alimento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alimento in Portuguese?
alimento appears 14 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).