internamento
Portuguese, noun/ĩ.teʁ.naˈmẽ.tu/
internamento is spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-A-M-E-N-T-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 43,826th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Internamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hospitalization/hospitalisation (act of confining someone in a hospital or clinic for assisted treatment)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “entrada e permanência em hospital para fins de tratamento”.
What does internamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehospitalization/hospitalisation (act of confining someone in a hospital or clinic for assisted treatment)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. entrada e permanência em hospital para fins de tratamento 2. período em que a pessoa permanece sob cuidados em instituição de saúde
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 internamento
- internamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce internamento?
- Brazil /ĩ.teʁ.naˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil [ĩ.teɦ.naˈmẽ.tu]
- /ĩ.teɾ.naˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is internamento in Portuguese?
internamento appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).