mesóclise
Portuguese, noun/meˈzɔ.kli.zi/
mesóclise is spelled M-E-S-Ó-C-L-I-S-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese, the 125,896th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mesóclise is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “mesoclisis (insertion of a clitic inside a word)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “interposição de variações pronominais aos verbos: contorná-lo-ei, batizá-lo-ei, amá-lo-ei, incentivá-lo-ei…”.
What does mesóclise mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemesoclisis (insertion of a clitic inside a word)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. interposição de variações pronominais aos verbos: contorná-lo-ei, batizá-lo-ei, amá-lo-ei, incentivá-lo-ei, administrá-lo-ei... 2. o mesmo que tmese 3. forma de combinação de um verbo flexionado no tempo futuro do presente ou futuro do pretérito do indicativo, com um pronome oblíquo ou outra partícula, na qual a partícula é colocada entre o radical e a desinência modo-temporal do verbo, separada por hífenes: realizar-se-á, falar-lhe-ei, ter-se-iam, dir-me-á, edificá-lo-ei, manter-se-ia, contentar-nos-emos...
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 mesóclise
- mesóclises plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mesóclise?
- Brazil /meˈzɔ.kli.zi/
- Portugal /mɨˈzɔ.kli.zɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mesóclise in Portuguese?
mesóclise appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).