sedimento
Portuguese, noun/se.d͡ʒiˈmẽ.tu/
sedimento is spelled S-E-D-I-M-E-N-T-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 55,453rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sedimento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sediment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of sedimentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “matérias depositadas”.
What does sedimento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesediment
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of sedimentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. matérias depositadas 2. fezes
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 sedimento
- sedimentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sedimento?
- Brazil /se.d͡ʒiˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /sɨ.diˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal [sɨ.ðiˈmẽ.tu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sedimento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sedimento in Portuguese?
sedimento appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).