calcedônia
Portuguese, noun
calcedônia is spelled C-A-L-C-E-D-Ô-N-I-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 132,552nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calcedônia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “chalcedony (form of fine-grained quartz)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, calcedónia is a different word: “chalcedony (form of fine-grained quartz)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mineral translúcido, de cor branca a cinzenta, cinzento-azulada ou em alguma tonalidade de marrom, às vezes…”.
What does calcedônia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininechalcedony (form of fine-grained quartz)
noun
- 1
femininechalcedony (form of fine-grained quartz)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mineral translúcido, de cor branca a cinzenta, cinzento-azulada ou em alguma tonalidade de castanho, às vezes quase preta
noun: 1. mineral translúcido, de cor branca a cinzenta, cinzento-azulada ou em alguma tonalidade de marrom, às vezes quase preta
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 calcedônia
- calcedônias plural
- calcedónia alternative Portugal
- calcedónias plural
- calcedônia alternative Brazil
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to calcedônia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calcedônia in Portuguese?
calcedônia appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).