óxido
Portuguese, noun
óxido is spelled Ó-X-I-D-O (5 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 22,247th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Óxido is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “oxide (binary compound of oxygen)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, oxido is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of oxidar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “designação genérica dos compostos químicos binários formados por átomos de oxigênio e outros elementos, onde…”.
What does óxido mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineoxide (binary compound of oxygen)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of oxidar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. designação genérica dos compostos químicos binários formados por átomos de oxigênio e outros elementos, onde o oxigênio é mais eletronegativo
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 óxido
- óxidos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to óxido
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is óxido in Portuguese?
óxido appears 2.0 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).