physis
Portuguese, noun
physis is spelled P-H-Y-S-I-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese, the 125,896th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Physis is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “physis (nature, as contrasted with law or custom)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver físis”.
What does physis mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininephysis (nature, as contrasted with law or custom)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver físis
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.
English words that translate to physis
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is physis in Portuguese?
physis appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).