manuseio
Portuguese, noun/ma.nuˈzej.u/
manuseio is spelled M-A-N-U-S-E-I-O (8 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 26,311th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Manuseio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “handling (the touching, controlling, managing, using or care of something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of manusear. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ação e ato de manusear, de tocar com as mãos intensamente”.
What does manuseio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehandling (the touching, controlling, managing, using or care of something)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of manusear
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ação e ato de manusear, de tocar com as mãos intensamente 2. ato de se utilizar de algo com as mãos ou com as mãos executar uma ação em um objeto ou aparelho 3. ato de amassar ou amarfanhar em algo 4. folheação, olhar e folhear um livro ou revista lendo-o superficialmente passando as páginas rápido
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 manuseio
- manuseios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce manuseio?
- Brazil /ma.nuˈzej.u/
- Brazil [ma.nuˈzeɪ̯.u]
- Portugal /mɐ.nuˈzɐj.u/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to manuseio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is manuseio in Portuguese?
manuseio appears 1.5 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).