dispneia
Portuguese, noun
dispneia is spelled D-I-S-P-N-E-I-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 76,181st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dispneia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “dyspnoea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, dispnéia is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of dispneia; may still occur as…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sintoma no qual a pessoa tem desconforto para respirar, normalmente com a sensação de respiração incompleta”.
What does dispneia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedyspnoea
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of dispneia; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. sintoma no qual a pessoa tem desconforto para respirar, normalmente com a sensação de respiração incompleta
noun: 1. vide dispneia
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 dispneia
- dispnéias plural
- dispneias plural
- dispnéia alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dispneia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dispneia in Portuguese?
dispneia appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).