ciano
Portuguese, noun
ciano is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cyan (color/colour)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, cíano is a different word: “alternative form of ciano”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “designação comum às plantas do reino Cyanus, incluídas no gênero Centaurea, da família das compostas”.
What does ciano mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecyan (color/colour)
adjective
- 1
cyan (color/colour)
prefix
- 1
cyano-
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of ciano
adjective
- 1
alternative form of ciano
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. relativo à cor ciano (ou cião)
noun: 1. designação comum às plantas do reino Cyanus, incluídas no gênero Centaurea, da família das compostas 2. cor do espectro visível situada entre o verde e o azul, utilizada em impressão, e que lembra, por exemplo, a cor de corpos de água cristalina
adjective: 1. ciano, cião
noun: 1. ciano, cião
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 ciano
- cianos plural
- cíano alternative
- cyano alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ciano
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ciano in Portuguese?
ciano appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).