começo
Portuguese, noun
começo is spelled C-O-M-E-Ç-O (6 letters) and appears 87 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,113th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Começo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “beginning; commencement (the process of beginning, starting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of começar. With an accent, comêço is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de começar, ponto de partida da existência ou da ação de uma coisa; origem, princípio, elemento inicial…”.
What does começo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebeginning; commencement (the process of beginning, starting)
O rei celebrou o começo de seu reino.
- 2
masculinebeginning; start (the initial stages of something)
Meu personagem favorito morreu logo no começo do livro.
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of começar
- 2
Portugalfirst-person singular present indicative of comedir
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of começo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato de começar, ponto de partida da existência ou da ação de uma coisa; origem, princípio, elemento inicial, germe
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 começo
- começos plural
- comêço alternative
- commeço alternative
- commêço alternative obsolete rare
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to começo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is começo in Portuguese?
começo appears 87 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).