artículo
Portuguese, noun
artículo is spelled A-R-T-Í-C-U-L-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 70,152nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Artículo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “articulus (a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, articulo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of articular”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segmento dum animal articulado, espaço entre nós duma planta”.
What does artículo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinearticulus (a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage)
- 2
masculinearticulus (a joint of the cirri of a crinoid)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of articular
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. segmento dum animal articulado, espaço entre nós duma planta 2. osso dos dedos 3. divisão, partição dum escrito
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 artículo
- artículos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is artículo in Portuguese?
artículo appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).