início
Portuguese, noun
início is spelled I-N-Í-C-I-O (6 letters) and appears 245 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 374th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Início is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “beginning (initial portion of some extended thing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, inicio is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “começo”.
What does início mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebeginning (initial portion of some extended thing)
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of início
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of iniciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. começo
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 início
- inicios plural
- inícios plural
- inicio alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to início
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is início in Portuguese?
início appears 245 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).