feminicídio
Portuguese, noun/fe.mi.niˈsi.d͡ʒju/
feminicídio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “femicide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “assassinato proposital de mulheres somente por serem mulheres”.
What does feminicídio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefemicide
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. assassinato proposital de mulheres somente por serem mulheres 2. crime de ódio contra indivíduos do sexo feminino, definido também por agressões verbais, físicas e psicológicas
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 feminicídio
- feminicídios plural
- femicídio alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce feminicídio?
- Brazil /fe.mi.niˈsi.d͡ʒju/
- Portugal /fɨ.mi.niˈsi.dju/
- Portugal [fɨ.mi.niˈsi.ðju]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to feminicídio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is feminicídio in Portuguese?
feminicídio appears 1.4 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).