mecônio
Portuguese, noun
mecônio is spelled M-E-C-Ô-N-I-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese, the 136,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mecônio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “meconium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, mecónio is a different word: “meconium”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “primeira evacuação do recém-nascido”.
What does mecônio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemeconium
noun
- 1
masculinemeconium
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. primeira evacuação do recém-nascido 2. suco das papoulas
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 mecônio
- mecônios plural
- mecónio alternative Portugal
- mecónios plural
- mecônio alternative Brazil
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mecônio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mecônio in Portuguese?
mecônio appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).