laboratório
Portuguese, noun/la.bo.ɾaˈtɔ.ɾju/
laboratório is spelled L-A-B-O-R-A-T-Ó-R-I-O (11 letters) and appears 40 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,312th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Laboratório is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “laboratory (room, building or institution equipped for scientific research)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “local equipado para realizar experiências e investigações científicas ou para manufaturar produtos químicos…”.
What does laboratório mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelaboratory (room, building or institution equipped for scientific research)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. local equipado para realizar experiências e investigações científicas ou para manufaturar produtos químicos, remédios, etc 2. local onde se desenvolvem filmes fotográficos
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 laboratório
- laboratórios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce laboratório?
- Brazil /la.bo.ɾaˈtɔ.ɾju/
- Portugal /lɐ.bu.ɾɐˈtɔ.ɾju/
- Portugal [lɐ.βu.ɾɐˈtɔ.ɾju]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to laboratório
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is laboratório in Portuguese?
laboratório appears 40 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).