-cele
Portuguese, suffix/ˈsɛ.li/
-cele is spelled C-E-L-E (4 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 77,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -cele is a Portuguese feminine suffix meaning “-cele (forms the names of tumours and hernias)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does -cele mean in English?
suffix
- 1
feminine-cele (forms the names of tumours and hernias)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. Comércio Europeu de Licenças de Emissão
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.
How do you pronounce -cele?
- Brazil /ˈsɛ.li/
- Portugal /ˈsɛ.lɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to -cele
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is -cele in Portuguese?
-cele appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).