carbono
Portuguese, noun/kaʁˈbõ.nu/
carbono is spelled C-A-R-B-O-N-O (7 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,546th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carbono is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “carbon (chemical element)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mais leve elemento do grupo 14 da tabela periódica, de símbolo C, possui número atômico 6 e massa atômica…”.
What does carbono mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecarbon (chemical element)
- 2
masculinecarbon (a carbon atom)
- 3
masculineellipsis of papel-carbono
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mais leve elemento do grupo 14 da tabela periódica, de símbolo C, possui número atômico 6 e massa atômica relativa de 12,0107 u; é um não-metal, sólido na temperatura ambiente, com três formas alotrópicas mais comuns (diamante, grafite e carbono amorfo), é o quarto elemento mais abundante do universo enquanto na crosta terrestre ocupa a décima quinta posição em ocorrência, presente em vários compo 2. forma abreviada de papel carbono
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 carbono
- carbonos plural
- carbone alternative obsolete
- carbónio alternative Portugal obsolete
- carbônio alternative Brazil obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carbono?
- Brazil /kaʁˈbõ.nu/
- Brazil [kaɦˈbõ.nu]
- /kaɾˈbõ.nu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to carbono
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is carbono in Portuguese?
carbono appears 18 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).