amido
Portuguese, noun/aˈmi.du/
amido is spelled A-M-I-D-O (5 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,104th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amido is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “starch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “polímero de cadeia alifática longa, constituído de dois polissacarídeos: amilose e amilopectina; e de fórmula…”.
What does amido mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestarch
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. polímero de cadeia alifática longa, constituído de dois polissacarídeos: amilose e amilopectina; e de fórmula genérica (C₆H₁₀O₅)ₙ 2. pó branco e insípido existente em muitas plantas especialmente nos grãos dos cereais, constituido por carbono, hidrogênio e oxigênio 3. radical hipotético monovalente composto por dois átomos de hidrogênio e um de nitrogênio
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 amido
- amidos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce amido?
- Brazil /aˈmi.du/
- Portugal /ɐˈmi.du/
- Portugal [ɐˈmi.ðu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to amido
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amido in Portuguese?
amido appears 1.1 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).