médico
Portuguese, noun
médico is spelled M-É-D-I-C-O (6 letters) and appears 102 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 957th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Médico is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “consulting room, clinic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, medico is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of medicar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa diplomada em medicina, qualificada para tratar doentes”.
What does médico mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconsulting room, clinic
- 2
Brazilmasculineremedy
adjective
- 1
medical
posto médico
adjective
- 1
datedMedian
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of medicar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que é relativo à medicina ou a quem a exerce
adjective: 1. que é relativo à Média, a Antiga Pérsia, ou aos Medos
noun: 1. pessoa diplomada em medicina, qualificada para tratar doentes 2. pessoa que cura um mal
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 médico
- médicos plural
- médica feminine
- médicas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to médico
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is médico in Portuguese?
médico appears 102 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).