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terebintina

Portuguese, noun/te.ɾe.bĩˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/

terebintina is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “turpentine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “designação genérica de resinas extraídas do terebinto e das coníferas”.

What does terebintina mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineturpentine

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. designação genérica de resinas extraídas do terebinto e das coníferas

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 terebintina

  • terebintinas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce terebintina?

  • Brazil /te.ɾe.bĩˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
  • Portugal /tɨ.ɾɨ.bĩˈti.nɐ/
  • Portugal [tɨ.ɾɨ.βĩˈti.nɐ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to terebintina

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is terebintina in Portuguese?

terebintina appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).