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intermédio

Portuguese, noun

intermédio is spelled I-N-T-E-R-M-É-D-I-O (10 letters) and appears 5.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,013th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Intermédio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “medium (communicating material)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, intermedio is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquilo que estabelece comunicação entre duas coisas”.

What does intermédio mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    intermediate

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemedium (communicating material)

noun

as intermedio
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of intermédio

verb

as intermedio
  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of intermediar

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. que está de permeio; que se interpôs

noun: 1. aquilo que estabelece comunicação entre duas coisas

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 intermédio

  • intermedios plural
  • intermédia feminine
  • intermédios masculine plural
  • intermédias feminine plural
  • intermedio alternative

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

English words that translate to intermédio

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is intermédio in Portuguese?

intermédio appears 5.1 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).

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