índico
Portuguese, adjective
índico is spelled Í-N-D-I-C-O (6 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,037th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Índico is a Portuguese adjective meaning “Indian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, indico is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of indicar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o mesmo que indiano”.
What does índico mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Indian
- 2
related to the Indian Ocean
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of indicar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Oceano Índico: O terceiro maior oceano, entre a África e a Ásia, estendendo-se na horizontal até a Antártida
adjective: 1. o mesmo que indiano
noun: 1. o mesmo que indiano
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 índico
- índica feminine
- índicos masculine plural
- índicas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is índico in Portuguese?
índico appears 3.7 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).