polissemia
Portuguese, noun/ˌpɔ.li.seˈmi.ɐ/
polissemia is spelled P-O-L-I-S-S-E-M-I-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 139,586th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Polissemia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “polysemy (the condition of having multiple meanings)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o fato de uma palavra ter mais de um significado”.
What does polissemia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepolysemy (the condition of having multiple meanings)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o fato de uma palavra ter mais de um significado
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 polissemia
- polissemias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce polissemia?
- Brazil /ˌpɔ.li.seˈmi.ɐ/
- Portugal /ˌpɔ.li.sɨˈmi.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 polissemia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is polissemia in Portuguese?
polissemia appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).