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picado

Portuguese, noun/piˈka.du/

picado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “finely chopped food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of picar.

What does picado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    having insect bites

  2. 2

    hash (chopped into small pieces)

  3. 3

    choppy (having many small, rough waves)

  4. 4

    staccato (with each note played for a very short duration)

noun

  1. 1

    masculinefinely chopped food

  2. 2

    masculinestaccato (articulation in with each note played for a very short duration)

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of picar

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. que está picado, que tem picadas 2. cortado em pedaços muito pequenos 3. qualifica o mar agitado, levemente encrespado

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 picado

  • picada feminine
  • picados masculine plural
  • picadas feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce picado?

  • Brazil /piˈka.du/
  • Portugal /piˈka.du/
  • Portugal [piˈka.ðu]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is picado in Portuguese?

picado appears 1.7 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).