arrefecimento
Portuguese, noun/a.ʁe.fe.siˈmẽ.tu/
arrefecimento is spelled A-R-R-E-F-E-C-I-M-E-N-T-O (13 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 34,194th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrefecimento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cooling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ação ou efeito de arrefecer (-se)”.
What does arrefecimento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecooling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ação ou efeito de arrefecer (-se) 2. diminuição observada na temperatura de 3. desaparecimento do calor; esfriamento 4. ausência de forças
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 arrefecimento
- arrefecimentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrefecimento?
- Brazil /a.ʁe.fe.siˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil [a.he.fe.siˈmẽ.tu]
- /a.ʁe.fe.siˈmẽ.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 arrefecimento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrefecimento in Portuguese?
arrefecimento appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).