prefácio
Portuguese, noun
prefácio is spelled P-R-E-F-Á-C-I-O (8 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,528th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prefácio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “preface, foreword” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, prefacio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of prefaciar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “texto preliminar de apresentação, geralmente breve, escrito pelo autor ou por outrem, colocado no começo do…”.
What does prefácio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepreface, foreword
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of prefaciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. texto preliminar de apresentação, geralmente breve, escrito pelo autor ou por outrem, colocado no começo do livro, com explicações sobre seu conteúdo, objetivos ou sobre a pessoa do autor
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 prefácio
- prefácios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to prefácio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prefácio in Portuguese?
prefácio appears 3.5 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).