tema
Portuguese, noun/ˈtẽ.mɐ/
tema is spelled T-E-M-A (4 letters) and appears 117 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 824th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tema is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “theme; topic; subject (what something is about)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of temer. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “assunto”.
What does tema mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetheme; topic; subject (what something is about)
- 2
masculinetheme; motif (recurring idea)
- 3
masculinetheme (main melody of a piece of music)
- 4
masculinetheme (melody that identifies a film or programme)
- 5
masculinetheme (the main stem of a word, without the affixes)
- 6
masculinetheme; skin (colour schemes, sounds, artwork of an application)
- 7
masculinetheme (regional unit of the Byzantine empire)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. assunto 2. a principal melodia de uma peça musical 3. coleção de esquemas de cores, sons, arte gráfica etc
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do presente do subjuntivo do verbo temer 2. terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo temer 3. terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo temer
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 tema
- temas plural
- thema alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tema?
- Brazil /ˈtẽ.mɐ/
- Portugal /ˈte.mɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tema
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tema in Portuguese?
tema appears 117 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).