medicinal
Portuguese, adjective/me.d͡ʒi.siˈnaw/
medicinal is spelled M-E-D-I-C-I-N-A-L (9 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,396th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Medicinal is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “medicinal (of or pertaining to medicine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “referente à medicina ou a médico”.
What does medicinal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinemedicinal (of or pertaining to medicine)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. referente à medicina ou a médico 2. que serve de remédio 3. salutar
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 medicinal
- medicinais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce medicinal?
- Brazil /me.d͡ʒi.siˈnaw/
- Brazil [me.d͡ʒi.siˈnaʊ̯]
- Portugal /mɨ.di.siˈnal/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is medicinal in Portuguese?
medicinal appears 2.1 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).