diabetes
Portuguese, noun/d͡ʒi.aˈbɛ.t͡ʃis/
diabetes is spelled D-I-A-B-E-T-E-S (8 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,403rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diabetes is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of diabete. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “grupo de enfermidades caracterizadas por hiperglicemia, poliúria, polidipsia, glicosúria e polifagia”.
What does diabetes mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinediabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)
noun
- 1
plural of diabete
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. grupo de enfermidades caracterizadas por hiperglicemia, poliúria, polidipsia, glicosúria e polifagia
noun: 1. enfermidade do grupo de doenças de mesmo nome
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 diabetes
- diabete alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce diabetes?
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.aˈbɛ.t͡ʃis/
- Brazil /d͡ʒjaˈbɛ.t͡ʃis/
- /d͡ʒi.aˈbɛ.t͡ʃiʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to diabetes
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diabetes in Portuguese?
diabetes appears 5.5 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).