secundário
Portuguese, noun/se.kũˈda.ɾju/
secundário is spelled S-E-C-U-N-D-Á-R-I-O (10 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,384th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Secundário is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “clipping of ensino secundário” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does secundário mean in English?
adjective
- 1
secondary
- 2
inferior
- 3
subordinate
noun
- 1
Portugalcolloquialmasculineclipping of ensino secundário
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que está em segundo em (ordem) ou (categoria) 2. inferior
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 secundário
- secundária feminine
- secundários masculine plural
- secundárias feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce secundário?
- Brazil /se.kũˈda.ɾju/
- Portugal /sɨ.kũˈda.ɾju/
- Portugal /sɨ.kũ.ˈda.ɾju/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to secundário
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is secundário in Portuguese?
secundário appears 12 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).