mesencéfalo
Portuguese, noun/me.zẽˈsɛ.fa.lu/
mesencéfalo is spelled M-E-S-E-N-C-É-F-A-L-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 111,334th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mesencéfalo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “midbrain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does mesencéfalo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemidbrain
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of mesencéfalo
- mesencéfalos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mesencéfalo?
- Brazil /me.zẽˈsɛ.fa.lu/
- Portugal /mɨ.zẽˈsɛ.fɐ.lu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mesencéfalo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mesencéfalo in Portuguese?
mesencéfalo appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).