tenesmo
Portuguese, noun/teˈnez.mu/
tenesmo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tenesmus (painfully urgent need to urinate or defecate that results in little being passed)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does tenesmo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetenesmus (painfully urgent need to urinate or defecate that results in little being passed)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of tenesmo
- tenesmos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tenesmo?
- Brazil /teˈnez.mu/
- /teˈneʒ.mu/
- Portugal /tɨˈneʒ.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tenesmo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tenesmo in Portuguese?
tenesmo appears about once in every 89 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).