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insecticida

Portuguese, noun

insecticida is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of inseticida; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does insecticida mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of inseticida; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of insecticida

  • insecticidas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is insecticida in Portuguese?

insecticida appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).