fagócito
Portuguese, noun
fagócito is spelled F-A-G-Ó-C-I-T-O (8 letters). Fagócito is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “phagocyte (cell of the immune system)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, fagocito is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of fagocitar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “leucócito que elimina partículas estranhas ao organismo, tais como bactérias”.
What does fagócito mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinephagocyte (cell of the immune system)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of fagocitar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. leucócito que elimina partículas estranhas ao organismo, tais como bactérias.
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 fagócito
- fagócitos plural
- phagocyto alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fagócito
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.