capsídeo
Portuguese, noun/kapˈsi.d͡ʒju/
capsídeo is spelled C-A-P-S-Í-D-E-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese, the 209,413th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Capsídeo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “capsid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “envoltório protéico que envolve o material genético de um vírus”.
What does capsídeo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecapsid
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. envoltório protéico que envolve o material genético de um vírus
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 capsídeo
- capsídeos plural
- capsídio alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce capsídeo?
- Brazil /kapˈsi.d͡ʒju/
- Brazil /ka.piˈsi.d͡ʒju/
- Portugal /kɐpˈsi.dju/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is capsídeo in Portuguese?
capsídeo appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).