telencéfalo
Portuguese, noun/te.lẽˈsɛ.fa.lu/
telencéfalo is spelled T-E-L-E-N-C-É-F-A-L-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written Portuguese, the 181,777th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Telencéfalo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “telencephalon (structure from which the mature cerebrum develops)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “maior parte do cérebro que contém o córtex cerebral (dos dois hemisférios cerebrais), bem como várias…”.
What does telencéfalo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetelencephalon (structure from which the mature cerebrum develops)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. maior parte do cérebro que contém o córtex cerebral (dos dois hemisférios cerebrais), bem como várias estruturas subcorticais, incluindo o hipocampo, os gânglios da base e o bulbo olfatório
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 telencéfalo
- telencéfalos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce telencéfalo?
- Brazil /te.lẽˈsɛ.fa.lu/
- Portugal /tɛ.lẽˈsɛ.fɐ.lu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to telencéfalo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is telencéfalo in Portuguese?
telencéfalo appears about once in every 41 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).