parestesia
Portuguese, noun/pa.ɾes.teˈzi.ɐ/
parestesia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “paresthesia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sensação anormal devida a um distúrbio funcional do sistema nervoso”.
What does parestesia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineparesthesia
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. sensação anormal devida a um distúrbio funcional do sistema nervoso
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 parestesia
- parestesias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce parestesia?
- Brazil /pa.ɾes.teˈzi.ɐ/
- /pa.ɾeʃ.teˈzi.ɐ/
- Portugal /pɐ.ɾɨʃ.tɨˈzi.ɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to parestesia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is parestesia in Portuguese?
parestesia appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).