principios
Portuguese, noun
principios is spelled P-R-I-N-C-I-P-I-O-S (10 letters) and appears 43 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,182nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Principios is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of principio” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, princípios is a different word: “plural of princípio”.
What does principios mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of principio
noun
- 1
masculineplural of princípio
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. plural masculino do substantivo princípio 2. as primeiras épocas da vida 3. antecedentes 4. opiniões
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.
How common is principios in Portuguese?
principios appears 43 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).