missionário
Portuguese, noun/mi.si.oˈna.ɾju/
missionário is spelled M-I-S-S-I-O-N-Á-R-I-O (11 letters) and appears 6.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,632nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Missionário is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “missionary (person traveling to spread a religion)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquele que missiona”.
What does missionário mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemissionary (person traveling to spread a religion)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. referente a missão
noun: 1. aquele que missiona
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 missionário
- missionários plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce missionário?
- Brazil /mi.si.oˈna.ɾju/
- Brazil /mi.sjoˈna.ɾju/
- Portugal /mi.sjuˈna.ɾju/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to missionário
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is missionário in Portuguese?
missionário appears 6.9 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).