étimo
Portuguese, noun/ˈɛ.t͡ʃi.mu/
étimo is spelled É-T-I-M-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 157,828th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étimo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “etymon (source word)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vocábulo do qual se originou uma outra palavra”.
What does étimo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineetymon (source word)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vocábulo do qual se originou uma outra palavra
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 étimo
- étimos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce étimo?
- Brazil /ˈɛ.t͡ʃi.mu/
- Portugal /ˈɛ.ti.mu/
- /ˈɛ.tʃi.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to étimo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is étimo in Portuguese?
étimo appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).