-oico
Portuguese, suffix
-oico is spelled O-I-C-O (4 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,500th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -oico is a Portuguese suffix meaning “-oic (used to form the names of carboxylic groups and acids)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, oiço is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of ouvir”.
What does -oico mean in English?
suffix
- 1
-oic (used to form the names of carboxylic groups and acids)
suffix
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of -oico; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of ouvir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of -oico
- ouço alternative Brazil Northern
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to -oico
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is -oico in Portuguese?
-oico appears 1.0 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).