apótema
Portuguese, noun/aˈpɔ.te.mɐ/
apótema is spelled A-P-Ó-T-E-M-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese, the 164,273rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apótema is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “apothem (the distance from the center of a polygon to a side)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “linha que parte do centro de um polígono e é perpendicular a um de seus lados; raio do círculo inscrito num…”.
What does apótema mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineapothem (the distance from the center of a polygon to a side)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. linha que parte do centro de um polígono e é perpendicular a um de seus lados; raio do círculo inscrito num polígono regular 2. geratriz de um cone ou tronco de cone 3. depósito escuro que se forma aos poucos em certas soluções de extratos vegetais
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 apótema
- apótemas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apótema?
- Brazil /aˈpɔ.te.mɐ/
- Portugal /ɐˈpɔ.tɨ.mɐ/
- Portugal /ɐ.ˈpɔ.tɨ.mɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is apótema in Portuguese?
apótema appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).