tempero
Portuguese, noun
tempero is spelled T-E-M-P-E-R-O (7 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,997th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tempero is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “seasoning (something that adds taste to food)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of temperar. With an accent, tempêro is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “todo o ingrediente adicionado na comida para lhe alterar o sabor”.
What does tempero mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineseasoning (something that adds taste to food)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of temperar
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of tempero
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. todo o ingrediente adicionado na comida para lhe alterar o sabor 2. aquilo que dá um tom especial a algo
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 tempero
- temperos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tempero
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tempero in Portuguese?
tempero appears 2.8 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).