poli-
Portuguese, prefix
poli- is spelled P-O-L-I (4 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,222nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Poli- is a Portuguese prefix meaning “poly- (many; multiple)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, poli is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “muitos”.
What does poli- mean in English?
prefix
- 1
poly- (many; multiple)
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative
- 2
second-person plural imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. muitos
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 poli-
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is poli- in Portuguese?
poli- appears 2.3 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).