padecimento
Portuguese, noun/pa.de.siˈmẽ.tu/
padecimento is spelled P-A-D-E-C-I-M-E-N-T-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written Portuguese, the 161,170th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Padecimento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “suffering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de padecer”.
What does padecimento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesuffering
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato de padecer 2. sofrimento, sofrência 3. perecimento
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 padecimento
- padecimentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce padecimento?
- Brazil /pa.de.siˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /pɐ.dɨ.siˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal [pɐ.ðɨ.siˈmẽ.tu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is padecimento in Portuguese?
padecimento appears about once in every 31 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).