ontogenia

Portuguese, noun/õ.to.ʒeˈni.ɐ/

ontogenia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “ontogeny (development of an individual organism)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does ontogenia mean in English?

noun

1
feminineontogeny (development of an individual organism)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of ontogenia

ontogenias plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce ontogenia?

Brazil /õ.to.ʒeˈni.ɐ/
Portugal /õ.tɔ.ʒɨˈni.ɐ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is ontogenia in Portuguese?

ontogenia appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese.

ontogenia0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).