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panacéia

Portuguese, noun

panacéia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of panaceia; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, panaceia is a different word: “panacea (remedy believed to cure all disease)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “remédio que curaria todos os males”.

What does panacéia mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of panaceia; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling

noun

as panaceia
  1. 1

    femininepanacea (remedy believed to cure all disease)

  2. 2

    femininepanacea (solution to all problems)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. remédio que curaria todos os males; 2. deusa da cura na mitologia grega.

noun: 1. remédio que curaria todos os males

noun: 1. deusa da cura universal, filha de Asclépio e irmã de Hígia, na mitologia grega 2. solução ou remédio considerado capaz de resolver todos os problemas ou doenças

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 panacéia

  • panacéias plural
  • panaceias plural
  • panacéia alternative
  • pa.na.céi.a canonical

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

English words that translate to panacéia

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is panacéia in Portuguese?

panacéia appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.

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