comércio
Portuguese, noun
comércio is spelled C-O-M-É-R-C-I-O (8 letters) and appears 69 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,387th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Comércio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “commerce, trade (exchange)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, comercio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of comerciar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “operação que tem como finalidade a venda ou a compra de uma mercadoria ou serviço, podendo revendê-la…”.
What does comércio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecommerce, trade (exchange)
- 2
masculinea company which engages in commerce
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of comerciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. operação que tem como finalidade a venda ou a compra de uma mercadoria ou serviço, podendo revendê-la, transformá-la, ou não 2. empresa ou grupo de empresas que fazem essas operações 3. permutação de produtos, valores 4. relação social
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 comércio
- comércios plural
- commercio alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to comércio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is comércio in Portuguese?
comércio appears 69 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).