metabolismo
Portuguese, noun/me.ta.boˈliz.mu/
metabolismo is spelled M-E-T-A-B-O-L-I-S-M-O (11 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,534th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Metabolismo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “metabolism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “conjunto de transformações que as substâncias químicas sofrem no interior dos organismos vivos”.
What does metabolismo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemetabolism
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. conjunto de transformações que as substâncias químicas sofrem no interior dos organismos vivos 2. conjunto de reações intracelulares, umas construtivas (anabolismo) e outras destrutivas (catabolismo)
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 metabolismo
- metabolismos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce metabolismo?
- Brazil /me.ta.boˈliz.mu/
- /me.ta.boˈliʒ.mu/
- Portugal /mɨ.tɐ.buˈliʒ.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to metabolismo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is metabolismo in Portuguese?
metabolismo appears 3.9 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).