doméstico
Portuguese, noun
doméstico is spelled D-O-M-É-S-T-I-C-O (9 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,127th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doméstico is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “domestic, house servant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, domestico is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of domesticar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “empregado que trabalha numa casa”.
What does doméstico mean in English?
adjective
- 1
domestic (of or relating to the home)
- 2
domestic (of an animal: which is kept by someone)
noun
- 1
masculinedomestic, house servant
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of domesticar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. relativo à casa, ao lar 2. relativo aos negócios internos de um país
noun: 1. empregado que trabalha numa casa
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 doméstico
- doméstica feminine
- domésticos masculine plural
- domésticas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to doméstico
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is doméstico in Portuguese?
doméstico appears 10 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).