metacarpo
Portuguese, noun/ˌmɛ.taˈkaʁ.pu/
metacarpo is spelled M-E-T-A-C-A-R-P-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 90,796th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Metacarpo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “metacarpus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “osso médio da mão, entre o carpo e as falanges”.
What does metacarpo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemetacarpus
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. osso médio da mão, entre o carpo e as falanges
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 metacarpo
- metacarpos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce metacarpo?
- Brazil /ˌmɛ.taˈkaʁ.pu/
- Brazil [ˌmɛ.taˈkah.pu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to metacarpo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is metacarpo in Portuguese?
metacarpo appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).