prédio
Portuguese, noun
prédio is spelled P-R-É-D-I-O (6 letters) and appears 58 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,676th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prédio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “edifice (a building, especially an imposing one)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, predio is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “construção, edifício”.
What does prédio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineedifice (a building, especially an imposing one)
- 2
masculinea large, multi-story building with rooms or floor belonging to different people or used for different purposes, such as an apartment block or skyscraper
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of prédio
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. construção, edifício
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 prédio
- predios plural
- prédios plural
- predio alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to prédio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prédio in Portuguese?
prédio appears 58 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).