amilase
Portuguese, noun
amilase is spelled A-M-I-L-A-S-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 79,437th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amilase is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative form of amílase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, amílase is a different word: “amylase”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “enzima presente na saliva humana que é capaz de quebrar moléculas de polissacarídeos como o amido, em…”.
What does amilase mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of amílase
noun
- 1
feminineamylase
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. enzima presente na saliva humana que é capaz de quebrar moléculas de polissacarídeos como o amido, em sacarídeos mais simples, catalizando a hidrólise da amilopectina e da amilose
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 amilase
- amílases plural
- amilase alternative
- amilases plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to amilase
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amilase in Portuguese?
amilase appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).