metonímia
Portuguese, noun/me.toˈnĩ.mjɐ/
metonímia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “metonymy (the use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify the entire object)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “figura de linguagem que substitui um elemento pela citação de outro que lhe está relacionado (por exemplo…”.
What does metonímia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemetonymy (the use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify the entire object)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. figura de linguagem que substitui um elemento pela citação de outro que lhe está relacionado (por exemplo: "sem teto", para alguém que não possui uma casa)
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 metonímia
- metonímias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce metonímia?
- Brazil /me.toˈnĩ.mjɐ/
- Portugal /mɨ.tuˈni.mjɐ/
- Portugal /mɨ.tu.ˈni.mjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to metonímia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is metonímia in Portuguese?
metonímia appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).