locução
Portuguese, noun/lo.kuˈsɐ̃w̃/
locução is spelled L-O-C-U-Ç-Ã-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 39,523rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Locução is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “articulation (the quality, clarity or sharpness of speech)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “reunião de duas ou mais palavras exercendo a função de uma única”.
What does locução mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininearticulation (the quality, clarity or sharpness of speech)
- 2
femininelocution (style of discourse or usage, or any particular utterance in such style)
- 3
Portugalfeminineexpression (a particular way of phrasing an idea)
- 4
femininephrase (group of words that functions as a single unit)
- 5
Brazilfeminineraresyntagma (a constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit)
- 6
femininevoice-over
- 7
BrazilfeminineThe act of speaking into a microphone.
- 8
Brazilfeminineelocution (the art of speaking, especially public speaking, with expert control of gesture and voice, diction and usage)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. reunião de duas ou mais palavras exercendo a função de uma única 2. reunião de duas ou mais palavras que formam expressões sempre ditas de forma invariável
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 locução
- locuções plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce locução?
- Brazil /lo.kuˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [lo.kuˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /lu.kuˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to locução
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is locução in Portuguese?
locução appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).