HIV
Portuguese, noun/aˈɡa ˈi ˈve/
HIV is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does HIV mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineHIV (human immunodeficiency virus)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. human immunodeficiency virus: ver VIH (vírus da imunodeficiência humana)
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.
How do you pronounce HIV?
- Brazil /aˈɡa ˈi ˈve/
- Portugal /ɐˈɡa ˈi ˈve/
- Portugal [ɐˈɣa ˈi ˈve]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to HIV
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is HIV in Portuguese?
HIV appears 9.3 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).