cimento
Portuguese, noun/siˈmẽ.tu/
cimento is spelled C-I-M-E-N-T-O (7 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,139th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cimento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cement (powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cimentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mistura em pó de calcário e de argila cuja argamassa adquire muita dureza e resistência”.
What does cimento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecement (powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water)
- 2
masculinecement (paste-like substance used in construction)
- 3
masculinecement (any material with strong adhesive properties)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of cimentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mistura em pó de calcário e de argila cuja argamassa adquire muita dureza e resistência
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 cimento
- cimentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cimento?
- Brazil /siˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /siˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /si.ˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cimento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cimento in Portuguese?
cimento appears 6.5 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).