remédio
Portuguese, noun
remédio is spelled R-E-M-É-D-I-O (7 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,459th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Remédio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “medicine (substance which promotes healing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, remedio is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “qualquer coisa que seja utilizada na cura ou atenuamento de algum problema”.
What does remédio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemedicine (substance which promotes healing)
- 2
masculineremedy (something that corrects or counteracts)
- 3
masculinealcoholic beverages
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of remédio
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of remediar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. qualquer coisa que seja utilizada na cura ou atenuamento de algum problema
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 remédio
- remedios plural
- remédios plural
- remedio alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to remédio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is remédio in Portuguese?
remédio appears 19 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).